Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Mr. David Moloney:
To answer the first part of the question, initially, it is engagement between my Department and other Departments. We have teams that look after each area of expenditure and they engage with line Departments. Ministers put in their bids and set out their priorities and asks. It is a public policy process and choice. Fundamentally, it is the priorities within the NDP, and the relative importance of priorities within it is not a technical matter, it embodies a range of policy choices which in the final instance will be made by the Government.