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
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The circular, at point No. 15, states that all Government Departments, local authorities, the HSE, public bodies and all bodies in receipt of public funding must comply, as appropriate, with the relevant requirements of the infrastructure guidelines. In the case of State companies, the board of each must satisfy itself annually that the company is in full compliance with the infrastructure guidelines. Who would each one of these Departments, bodies or agencies report to? Are they obliged to give someone a report to say they have ticked all the boxes?