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:
The private sector is where we have to go to get the skill sets we do not have ourselves or, more importantly, to augment the skill sets that are available across the Civil Service. That is an important point to make. There are quite a number of skill sets in project management, project appraisal and cost evaluation within the Civil Service and within the relevant agencies such as Transport Infrastructure Ireland. However, we use the private sector to augment that.