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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What is being done build capacity within Departments, and not only Mr. Conlon's own Department? We should also discuss his Department in terms of not having to contract out everything and just bring in the expertise. What is being done? Does the Department have internship programmes or graduate programmes? What is being done to get the brightest and best into the Department to get value for money and manage these projects? Are those types of internships and graduate programmes within the Department?