Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Ms Mary Hurley:

If it went ahead it would be open data. The Deputy rightly said it herself earlier that in scoping it out, and when one looks at what this could be, it is a huge project in cost, in work and in the commitment across government. There are huge issues to consider around it. We do not have a costing on it. Certainly, I am keen within my Department and we are looking at a system that can capture this type of information, so that if there were a cross-government system it could sit very nicely with that system. In terms of my Department and the data it is certainly a priority for me. It is something I am addressing and moving forward with so I have the very things the Deputy has referred to such as data sets and visibility.