Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Earlier this evening I spoke about the ESRI review. Part of the renaming of the Department to include NDP delivery involves asking an external agency to look at the exact question the Deputy asked, namely, what the barriers are to NDP delivery. We have asked the ESRI to assess what constraints we are reaching, what capacity constraints we have, what changes we might need to make and how to avoid simply adding to inflation by spending more money. We have received that report from the ESRI. It is being assessed at the moment and we will publish it shortly. The focus on this is going to be things like changing the public spending code to make it less bureaucratic or faster to make decisions but also identifying which areas we can invest in that do not add to inflation, how we can avoid a skills shortage and how we can avoid putting money in and not getting a return.

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