Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund
9:30 am
Dr. Colm O'Reardon:
The Government can make a decision to spend the money if it chooses to do so, but it is operating an expenditure rule. That is the Government's policy on the prudent management of the public finances. As a Department, we are bound by the decisions of the Ministers for Finance and for public expenditure and reform. There is no shortage of ambition in the Department to improve the education system.