Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

We will reform some of the infrastructure guidelines. Some of that is intended to try to remove some of the excessive time that projects take as they move through the infrastructure life cycle. Also central to wider expenditure control will be a reform of public financial procedures and ensuring for certain Departments that we need to have better fiscal discipline in terms of overall expenditure management. Accountability is central there when it comes to Departments or agencies under their remit. We have commenced a review of the public financial procedures. We will be able to set out further direction on the infrastructure guidelines when we publish the task force report. All of that is intended to deliver more, but also to ensure that we have accountability and oversight around overall spending of public funds.

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