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

Mr. John Conlon:

We have them on a broader scale for recruitment through the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES. Some of those people would work in the areas in which Mr. Meaney works and also related areas throughout the Department.

We do not have technical skill sets employed in the Department with regard to engineering, quantity surveying and stuff like that. They are skill sets we like to see employed in agencies and Departments rather than ourselves. We just focus on the economic and evaluation service to give us assistance with that type of work.