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Formed
  
6 July 2011

Website
  
www.per.gov.ie

Headquarters
  
Dublin

Jurisdiction
  
Ireland

Founded
  
6 July 2011

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Ministers responsible
  
Paschal Donohoe, TD, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Seán Canney, TD, Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief

Department executive
  
Robert Watt, Secretary General

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Public accounts committee and department of public expenditure and reform


The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Irish: An Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe) is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform who is assisted by one Minister of State.

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The department was established in July 2011. The department took over the functions of Public Expenditure from the Department of Finance. The department of Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for overseeing the reform of the Public Sector. The Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2012–14 set a spending ceiling for the department of €837 million for the year 2013, and €826 million for the year 2014.

Statement by the department of public expenditure and reform


Departmental team

The headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin 2. The departmental team consists of the following:

  • Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform: Paschal Donohoe, TD
  • Minister of State for the Office of Public Works, Public Procurement and International Banking: Seán Canney, TD
  • Secretary General of the Department: Robert Watt

    • Overview

    The department took over two of the six divisions within the Department of Finance. They are:

  • Public Expenditure Division – to establish and review short-term and medium-term current and capital public expenditure targets
  • Organisation, Management and Training Division – has overall responsibility for the management and development of the civil service

    • The department currently has 9 divisions:

  • Expenditure Policy Evaluation and Management
  • Expenditure Policy and State Assets
  • Expenditure Policy Lottery/EU/Internal Audit
  • Remuneration and Industrial Relations
  • Government Reform and Civil Service HR
  • CMOD and eGovernment
  • Public Service Reform and Delivery
  • Procurement
  • Human Resources

    • Functions

    The functions of the department are set out in the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 which transfers to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the functions of the Minister for Finance relating to public expenditure, public service pay etc., and public service modernisation.

    The Act is supplemented by two orders, the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (SI No. 418 of 2011) which transfers a large number of specific statutory functions from Finance to the Department, and the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011 (SI No. 480 of 2011) which adds a limited further list to the statutory functions transferred. In addition, in 2012 the Statute Law Revision Programme was transferred to the Department from the Office of the Attorney General.

    References

    Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Wikipedia
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