Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Mr. David Moloney:

I do not have visibility on the Department of Health side but I am saying that we received this documentation on 27 September and we have sent it to the major projects advisory group. We expect it to complete its review - and we have sent quite a few such projects to this group - and it is a six-week to eight-week timeframe. We expect to have a conclusion on that in mid-November.

I take the point that the Deputy is making that we need, in the context of an expanded NDP, to constantly look at our procedures and at our decision-making procedures because-----