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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why I want more for the west. I am not being parochial but I am very concerned about the imbalance.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Both Ministers are satisfied that the regional imbalance is being addressed in the way things are being done.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Can we expect the EU infrastructure competitiveness figures that show us in the bottom 7% to change? How soon can we expect it to change?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: With regard to the broadband plan, if the Minister tried to make a mobile phone call or connect to a meeting from Belmullet on a Monday he would find it extremely challenging and extremely unpredictable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not working in the way the Minister might-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I have to correct the Minister. Our opposition was to the manner in which it was done.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: No, it is not.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We are not against it, no.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: You are being deliberately-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Conlon for attending and for his opening statement, which gives us a lot of detail. The public spending code which became effective in January 2020 is a step forward, as Mr. Conlon said. As he outlined it was the first time there was a systematic approach to project assurance cost, forecast, risk, procurement and the other areas we needed to tackle. Three months ago, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the public spending code be in place until the guidelines are published or have the reforms that have been announced already come into effect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Under the 2019 spending code, the Department was required to undertake a technical review of any major capital projects at three stages, namely, the strategic assessment report, the preliminary business case and the final business case. Can Mr. Conlon confirm that the Department's technical reviews of both the preliminary and final business cases were replaced in 2021 by a private...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Can Mr. Meaney confirm that the new reforms announced remove the last technical review from the Department of major capital projects at the strategic assessment stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Does that mean the Department will no longer be providing any technical reviews of major capital projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: According to the opening statement, the formal approval of gate zero and the technical review by the Department on completion of the strategic assessment stage were taking four to five months in total and that the external review process and major project advisory group takes another three to four months. What time saving is anticipated to result from the recent reforms that were announced?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There will be a time saving. In January 2022, the then Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, said the timelines associated with public spending code compliance were a fraction of the time required for compliance with the range of statutory requirements. H also noted that many public spending code steps could be undertaken in parallel with other project development phases. What research or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There will always be a time saving. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is a very broad caveat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Are some Departments better than others?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: In 2021, the Department introduced the external assurance process. What was the rationale for replacing the Department-led assurance process - the technical reviews - with the private consultant-led assurance process?