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 suppose that this issue is probably around definitions and how common definitions are. Were I to hire PwC to do a job, then that would be shown in my account as a consultancy. On the other hand, if I were to oversee a capital project and the people delivering that capital project were to take on consultants of various types, some of them would be the type of consultancy we would normally understand as administrative management advisory but some of them might be engineering or relevant to the-----