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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the Department of Finance do internships in terms of recruitment out of colleges?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How many would you take on in the Department? It is a very competitive field in respect of graduates coming out of colleges. The Government and Departments have to be able to get the brightest and the best, to attract them in the first instance and then to retain them. Perhaps the Minister can give me a picture of how many and so on.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Minister able to tell me how many?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, when we are looking at a brain drain and people moving all over the world, including to Australia and all that, it is a challenge for us to retain the people we need here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister had sold it well. The Comptroller and Auditor General reviews 286 accounts. Has the Minister considered extending the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General to oversee all public bodies? I am thinking particularly of commercial public bodies and semi-State bodies. The RTÉ scandal should have immediately led to the Government ensuring the Comptroller and Auditor...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where there is a split, such as in RTÉ, so there is one element that is commercial and another that is public, can the Comptroller and Auditor General's role be extended to be able to cover this?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is something that should be considered notwithstanding the effectiveness of the committees. They are looking back. I am asking about a situation whereby we prevent the things that happened in RTÉ from happening in the first place. If there was oversight from the Comptroller and Auditor General, these things would be less likely to happen. The aim is to avoid them happening and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Please do.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I disagree. It is something that seriously needs to be looked at. With regard to the additional funding for Revenue to deliver customs infrastructure in Rosslare, what was the original estimated cost of the capital project and the original scheduled time for delivery? What is the current estimated cost of the project and the estimated time of delivery?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Since Brexit, people must pay a duty if they order something from Britain. Where does this money go and how much has been collected?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister to look at this.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, that is it exactly. It is to be able to monitor it. Revenue is open to customer queries online up to 1.30 p.m. I was not aware until yesterday that had changed and it only takes calls up to lunchtime.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important for all of these Departments, including Revenue which has a good track record, to be open to being contacted by people to be able to answer queries. Not everybody has broadband or Internet or IT literacy to be able to contact them. Additional resources-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is public money.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister let the committee know how much has been-----

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I listened with interest to the debate all evening. While I was listening to it, I got an email from a man in Mayo. I want to read a couple of extracts from it. It reads: "I am currently homeless. I have a full-time job. I am living out of my car in between work and seeing my four children. I have no money towards getting a deposit for a house. I am currently sitting in my car, with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Expenditure Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance for a detailed breakdown of non-voted expenditure since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (23 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 14 December 2023, to detail the practical implications of retired members attempting to claim this supplementary pension; if he plans to reform the current system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2618/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We only have a minute and a half left so maybe I will come in on the next round.