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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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their attendance. My main focus to begin with is the review of the national development plan and the key areas of focus in that regard. The Labour Party has a focus on education. Is that a key focus for the Department?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: What is the Department of public expenditure's oversight of how the Minister for education is spending money on particular issues arising within her Department? This year, for example, we see a serious issue consistently happening in respect of special educational needs provision. Is advice provided to the Minister for education in terms of how she should spend the money allocated to her...

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: For example, at the eleventh hour the Department of education opened up 400 new special classes this year but the allocation for the budget would have been made last October at budget stage. Was there any negotiation between the Department of public expenditure and the Department of education regarding extra funding being needed and being allocated for special education needs, in particular?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: When was the €210 million provided?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: In regard to the review itself, who is carrying it out?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: There is no additional cost to the review.

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I know Deputy Connolly touched on this, but Mr. Moloney cannot provide any sort of indication of outcomes from that.

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: In regard to projects within the national development plan, for example, there is the Cork to Limerick motorway, which is a significant project we hope to get over the line eventually because it has been ongoing for a number of years. I refer to the Department's oversight of the Cork to Limerick motorway in terms of spending on that. Obviously, that is something that has been brought to its...

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Does the Minister for public expenditure at any stage say to the Minister for Transport that this project is something that is necessary?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: That is an important question in regard to value for money. The Department itself understands the issue of value for money in terms of capital projects, in particular, or large projects within several Departments. How does the Department value that value for money in terms of the projects being spent on by each relevant Department?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Does the Department have oversight of the capital projects?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Have there been any capital project that has been reported to the Department that has not been value for money, in the Department's opinion, maybe during the course of the previous Dáil term and coming into this new Dáil term? Can Mr. Moloney name one capital project he believes has not been a value for money project, from any Department? Has the Department of public expenditure...

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Which projects?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The public would probably be thinking that there have been a number of capital projects. Are there particular capital projects that have taken place during the previous Dáil term and into this Dáil term that Mr. Moloney would say have not been value for money at all? Can he identify a particular project, or perhaps a number of them, over every Department?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: What is then done in terms of the Department's role? The project comes to the Department and it says the project is not value for money. Is it a case of saying it is not value for money, so we will move on now? If a project comes to the Department's attention and it is made clear it is not value for money, does it just move on?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The oversight arrangements were mentioned in terms of the pension errors. What has Mr. Moloney done in terms of the oversight arrangements? Obviously, there were errors within the oversight arrangements. What has Mr. Moloney done, in his role as Secretary General, to identify those errors? Is it specific staff within the Department who made those errors or is it a system within the Department?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: When did the Department complete the review of the oversight arrangements?

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 (10 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Great. I wish the witnesses well.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (9 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with a campaign group (details supplied) with regard to the ongoing independent review of the night-time economy pilots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (9 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to complete installing high-speed fibre broadband to 1.1 million people, including homes, farms, and businesses nationwide as of July 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37960/25]