Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would appreciate it if the Department would provide a note indicating exactly where the IMF made the recommendations for the change. It remains unclear if these reforms will make any substantial difference to the speed of project delivery and this is what concerns me. The then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath stated in January 2022 that the timelines associated with public spending code compliance "are a fraction of the time required for compliance with the range of statutory requirements...". Suddenly, one year later, this is being presented as a solution to the Government's failure to delivery an array of capital projects. Will the recently announced reforms to the public spending code substantially increase the speed of delivery and reliability of capital projects? Has the Department done any research to demonstrate this? I cannot join the dots here in terms of how things are going to be streamlined and speeded up.

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