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. Kevin Meaney:

I can talk about the supporting excellence review. No, it did not. It did not really focus on the public spending code in particular. It set out recommendations of key offices or skill sets that Departments, agencies and delivery entities should consider. Following on from that, we had an action plan ourselves with 34 specific actions. Mr. Conlon referenced this earlier when we were discussing looking at the capability and capacity of delivery entities and Departments. Three of those actions were specifically referenced. That was for Departments themselves to first engage in a gap analysis to see what skill sets they have identified as gaps in their Departments.