Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Fair enough. That is fine.
In appendices A5 and A6, there are technical assistance costs for the regional assemblies and, below that, the special EU programmes body North and South programmes, both of which have underspent. Looking around at the members of this committee, I think we all spent time on local authorities prior to coming to the Oireachtas. For the regional assemblies, the cost is not actually that large given their role, but I think their role is becoming more important now. Is the engagement from the Department purely a funding one? Does it have engagement directly with the regional assemblies or does that go through the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage?