The Irish parliament and the scrutiny of departmental performance reports

Tom Ward

Public Money & Management, 2015, vol. 35, issue 2, 153-160

Abstract: The public service reform agenda across the OECD has seen the roll-out of performance-reporting initiatives, which emphasise the results of public spending and enable parliaments to hold senior officials and ministers to account for performance. But do parliaments actually engage with this information? This paper examines the extent to which the Irish parliament (D�il Éireann) engaged with departmental performance reports and finds that reports were largely ignored in D�il Éireann's discussions on the annual budget. The paper concludes with a discussion on barriers to parliamentary engagement with performance information.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2015.1007713

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