Seanad debates
Thursday, 12 December 2002
Appropriation Bill, 2002 [Certified Money Bill]: Second and Subsequent Stages.
We need a unit, possibly within the Civil Service but external to the Department of Finance, to carry out such evaluations. A unit of that kind was established to deal with EU Structural Funds and it has, broadly speaking, worked well. We need a value for money unit – it could perhaps be called a "valuation unit"– which will look at selected items of Government expenditure in an organised way to see that we are actually getting the value for money.
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