Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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There will be a time saving. In January 2022, the then Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, said the timelines associated with public spending code compliance were a fraction of the time required for compliance with the range of statutory requirements. H also noted that many public spending code steps could be undertaken in parallel with other project development phases. What research or event led to the Department less than a year later deciding that compliance with the recently introduced public spending code was too burdensome? What evidence was there for that?