Written answers
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Department of Finance
Value for Money Reviews
11:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance the nature and outcome of any value for money audit carried out by his Department during the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25707/09]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I take it that the Deputy is referring to the ongoing Value for Money reviews. Under the Expenditure Review Initiative my Department, and the offices under its aegis, has carried out the following reviews during the last three years:
| Value for Money Review | Completion date | Outcome |
| Department of Finance | ||
| Ordnance Survey Ireland | January 2007 | 22 recommendations (published in detail on the Government website)* |
| Procurement Management within the Department | Due to be completed by the July 2009 | Not yet published |
| Construction Procurement Reform Initiative | Report is at review stage | Not yet published |
| Civil Service Childcare Initiative | November 2008 | 9 recommendations (published in detail on the Government website)* |
| Public Appointments Service | ||
| Advertising | November 2007 | 3 recommendations, all implemented |
| Procurement | April 2008 | 5 recommendations, 4 implemented |
| Training | November 2008 | 6 recommendations, all implemented |
| Office of Public Works | ||
| Value for Money and Policy Review of the Flood Risk Management Programme | May 2008 | Completed and published on the Government website |
| Review of Property Management Services | Report is currently in draft format | Not yet published |
| Office of the Revenue Commissioners | ||
| Information Technology External Resources Expenditure in 2006 | March 2008 | Completed and published on the Government website |
| *Responsibility for Ordinance Survey Ireland has transferred to the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and responsibility for the Civil Service Childcare Initiative has transferred to the Office of Public Works. |
The State Laboratory, the Office of the Appeals Commissioners, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments and the Valuations Office did not perform any such reviews during the years in question.
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