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:
It is increasingly like that. The annual budget will not increase by that amount every year. There is a baseline cost for the running and building of the services. We provide common standard desktop services. There are ongoing running costs once the initial investment is made in capital. Obviously, there are ongoing operational costs in terms of resources, ICT, etc. As for the cohort of people we service, we have gone to 5,000 users this year on our common desktop platform. We will be doubling that over the next two years. There is an efficiency in that rationalising and a cost-benefit on an Exchequer-neutral basis across all the organisations we provide service for. It will continue to grow as we deliver services and bring it under a common banner.