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Introduction
This is Volume II of the Report of the
Special Group on Public Service Numbers and ExpenditureProgrammes.
It consists of Detailed Papers on each of the Ministerial Vote Groups along with theHouses of the Oireachtas Commission and the
National Treasury Management Agency
. Summariesof these papers are included in Chapter 3 of Volume I of the Report.Each Detailed Paper outlines the expenditure of the Ministerial Vote Group concerned, the outcomeof the Group’s deliberations and the rationale, where required, behind the recommendations adoptedby the Group. All the identified savings are estimates of the full year impact of therecommendations when fully implemented, unless specifically stated. All staff numbers are on awhole time equivalent basis.
For Information:
The Government announced, in its Statement on
Transforming Public Services
on 27 November2008, that the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan T.D., was establishing a
Special Group onPublic Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes
to examine the current expenditureprogrammes in each Department and to make recommendations for reducing public servicenumbers so as to ensure a return to sustainable public finances.The Minister appointed Mr Colm McCarthy, School of Economics, University College Dublin, asmember and Chair of the
Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes
,along with Mr Donal McNally, Second Secretary General, Department of Finance, and:-
•
Mr. Pat McLoughlin, Chief Executive of the
Irish Payment Services Organisation
andformer Deputy Chief Executive of the
Health Service Executive
;
•
Mr Maurice O’Connell, former Governor of the
Central Bank of Ireland
and former seniorofficial in the Department of Finance;
•
Mr William Slattery, Executive Vice-President, Head of European Offshore Domiciles,
State Street Corporation
; and
•
Ms Mary Walsh, member of the
Commission on Taxation
and former Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
.The Group was supported by a Secretariat provided by the Department of Finance.
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