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
Mr. David Moloney:
I have a couple of things to say about that. First, for transport or any particular sectoral Department. the Department and the Minister, him or herself, decide on the priorities within the envelope.
Within the overall context of ourselves, we will be reviewing the national development plan in the first quarter of next year where the Government in the summer economic statement has made an extra €2.25 billion available in respect of windfall capital gains. We will be looking at those issues and have asked the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to provide us with an analysis of the potential for capital investment to be availed of by us.