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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: If somebody else is not following the process, the Secretary General clearly has to make some recommendation. Has the Secretary General made any recommendation for sanction?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Will there be any sanction if it continues in the vein that it has?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I would hope not. I understand that Covid resulted in an exceptional year or two. If it should, if the Secretary General comes in here this time next year and we have the same scenario, I will expect that he will say, "But this is what we categorically did as a matter or remedying that situation."

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: The Secretary General will be aware of that for next year. After the economic crash, Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, was set up. They do not seem to have a profile publicly. Does the Department take them seriously? Does the Department act on their reports?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Can the Secretary General give me three examples of where the Department has taken action on foot of an IGEES report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I refer to the actions the Department has taken. I know what the reports are. I have looked them up. What actions did the Department take?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: In other words, it is not about value for money. Basically, the Department comes back to Government and says that it should do this. The Department does not remove funds or recommend funds be diverted anywhere.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Therefore, the Department makes those recommendations or can.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Will Secretary General give three examples of where the Department has done that on foot of the most recent reports?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Would the Secretary General give me an example of what changes were made on foot of the reports? I am trying to establish here that IGEES is working and that it is having an impact. Is it only more reports that sit on a shelf?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Can the Secretary General give me an example, please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that. Based on my time limit, has the Secretary General have any other examples?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Such as, in the case of carers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Will the Secretary General go back to carers for me? What about half-rate carers? Has the Department decided to increase it or reduce it? What are the numbers involved? I assume these are family carers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Given that they save the country so much money in the long term, I would hope not. Ultimately, the care of some of our people that is being carried out by family carers and carers in receipt of carer's allowance is saving the State approximately €500,000 on an individual basis. There are far more worthy things, I would assume, that the Secretary General could have come up with. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: On the value-for-money aspect, how do we establish that we are getting €6 billion worth of value out of local authorities if there is no real oversight?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: That does not come under the remit of this committee. Does the Department interact with that service?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: This is my final question. Mr. Moloney is the Secretary General of the Department. In a personal capacity in performing that role, is he happy that there is sufficient oversight of that kind of money with local authorities? Does he take any responsibility in the context of stating whether we do or do not have sufficient oversight regarding €6 billion in public moneys?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is the Secretary General happy with them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Verona Murphy: Could Mr. Moloney make recommendations in his capacity as the Secretary General of the Department for better oversight?