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 Conlan:

I will ask Mr. Meaney to add to my response on this. I want to be clear that major projects, such as that which Deputy Conway-Walsh has just mentioned, still require fairly intensive involvement of the external assurance process and the major project advisory group at an early stage. That remains in place. This is a key response in particular to the report Deputy Conway-Walsh just mentioned. There has been no change to this since the recent announcement we made.