Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:30 am

Mr. John Hogan:

There is continuous engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs across a whole range of issues, and I would imagine this is one of the points that arise in some of the senior officials groups we are involved in. This goes into the broader question of environmental, social and governance, ESG, issues, and the rules and procedures that are associated with that. We are very conscious that we need to reflect further on how best we can enforce those rules and make them as effective as possible in reflecting Government policy.