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
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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No. What is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's function, in that it cost us €50 million a year to operate and the money that it may save has been stated to be €500 million a year but that has been whittled to just half? I could go on, because my speech only lasted three minutes. If I were to name every regulator then we would probably be looking at well in excess of the saving of €500 million. My point is there really is no benefit here, or is there?