Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

2:00 am

Mr. Seamus Coffey:

Yes, there should be more oversight and transparency. In terms of particular areas, however, even one as large as the Deputy mentioned, it would not come under our remit. Given some of the issues the Deputy referred to, it would perhaps be more appropriate for the Comptroller and Auditor General or colleagues here in the PBO to look at the finer detail of those types of programme. We are completely in favour of oversight and transparency. Even at that scale, it is possibly worth looking at, but the lack of data at the moment limits the capacity to look at that. It is possibly a job for somebody else.