Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

I thank the Deputy. Since the programme was established, it has been reviewed on a number of occasions. The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service did a report in 2017 and then our own internal audit unit did a review around 2018 or 2019. We then commissioned an external review that was done in two phases. That has a number of recommendations in it, some of which have been implemented and on some of which we were waiting for the overall policy decision.