Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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Under the 2019 spending code, the Department was required to undertake a technical review of any major capital projects at three stages, namely, the strategic assessment report, the preliminary business case and the final business case. Can Mr. Conlon confirm that the Department's technical reviews of both the preliminary and final business cases were replaced in 2021 by a private consultant-led external assurance process, as outlined in Circular 25/21?