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:
The changes since 2019 include the addition of an external assurance process and the involvement of the major project advisory group at the relatively early preliminary business case stage. This is with regard to key external assurance and the major project advisory group challenge to a project. Prior to 2019, the focus of a business case was very much centred on business and economic appraisal.