Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

Mr. Kevin Meaney:

The four-stage process is their own internal process. They have internal processes that feed down from the guidelines. What we said to them is that if they are coming forward, they can absolutely take a programmatic approach, for a preliminary business case, to the bundling of housing so they do not have to do multiple business cases. It is a recent enough change so they have not yet come forward with their sectoral proposal of how they will do it. However, it has been indicated that it could be a huge and time-saving advantage to them.