Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Conlon for attending and for his opening statement, which gives us a lot of detail. The public spending code which became effective in January 2020 is a step forward, as Mr. Conlon said. As he outlined it was the first time there was a systematic approach to project assurance cost, forecast, risk, procurement and the other areas we needed to tackle. Three months ago, the Minister announced a new reform plan, just over three years since the implementation of the spending code. A core part of the reform proposal is to remove the public sector spending code and to replace it with a set of infrastructure guidelines. When will the new infrastructure guidelines be published?