Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Ms Mary O'Donohue:
The office was established in 2013 as a division within the Department. The money that was transferred was the 2020 allocation based on what had been in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Vote previously. The office is well established but we are growing in terms of the level of services we provide. This is part of the reason for separating the Vote from the main Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Vote, so that it does not skew the Vote in a particular way. It is part of ongoing running costs, as well as continuous investment into the services that we provide and deliver on behalf of others. The build once is used mainly. However, there was a build-to-share, which was predominately the investment in the gov.ie, the Government portal. This became prominent particularly as a primary resource during Covid-19.