Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I see two areas of change. The first will be through the operation of the oversight body for the NDP. In that body, which consists of senior civil servants, the two Departments the Deputy referenced already are appropriately and strongly represented. The issue I want to consider is whether the oversight body is playing a proper remit in the delivery of capital spending inside a given year. The second area, on which I need to do further work, is the question of what the interaction will be between individual Vote teams within my Department and the Department whose expenditure the team manages. I will consider whether that needs an adjustment or rebalancing in light of the changed mandate of the Government. In the first area, I am clearer regarding the need to look at the oversight body. The second area will need a little further thought and work to see whether it is an axis of engagement that needs to change.