An article by the CCPC, special guest speakers on PAI’s Certificate in Public Procurement programme. Competition and public procurement fit hand in glove. Both look for innovative solutions and value for money that lead to better services and opportunities for…
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How to Track Public Investment Programmes The project material, recently published by Minister Paschal Donohoe TD, makes it possible for the public to track how infrastructure projects are progressing . The material also allows taxpayers to ascertain if they are getting…
I’m ready to talk! Believe me I don’t want to be like this. I know how it looks. I’m odd, right? I barely say hi, I’m disconnected and seem very unfriendly. But you know what, I have to be like…
Organisations are operating in a world where technological, economic and social change are driving the future of work, which is radically transforming the workplace. To help identify and manage this change, we facilitate an annual Global Human Capital Trends survey…
An updated version of the Public Spending Code has been published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It has been designed to strengthen the existing Code to better reflect the realities of project delivery, with a particular focus…
Ireland and the USA adopt different approaches to the review and repeal of outdated legislation. In Ireland, the tidying of the Statute Book has been approached through a series of Statute Law Revision Acts. In the USA, President Trump introduced…
The bill for bailing out the Irish Banks has reached nearly €42 billion. The Office of the Controller and Auditor General (C&AG) published the estimate in the ‘Report of the Public Services 2018’. Earlier estimates put the net cost at…
Reflecting on the past two years progress, Declan McCormack, programme manager, eInvoicing Ireland at the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) tracks the Irish eInvoicing journey so far. The eInvoicing Ireland journey started in earnest just two years ago, with…
Coaching and Mentoring – Benefits to an Organisation from an L&D Perspective HR and L&D Masterclass – Q3 2019 – Friday 20 September Public Affairs Ireland, Dublin 1 On this beautiful sunny morning, Public Affairs Ireland facilitated the first of…
What is the Public Spending Code? The Public Spending Code is the set of rules and procedures that are applied to expenditure across the Irish public service. The opening webpage for the Code points out that –“All Irish public bodies…