Public Service Management (No. 2) Bill 1997
Public bill · Government · Presented
Would put senior civil servants in charge of managing departments, setting goals, reporting progress and answering to Ministers and Oireachtas committees, while allowing Ministers to issue directions. It would also permit special advisers, shared responsibility across departments and greater legal independence for certain public offices, aiming to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a new management structure to enhance the management, effectiveness and transparency of operations of Departments of State and certain other offices of the public service and increase the accountability of civil servants while preserving the discretion of the Government in relation to their responsibility to Dáil Éireann, to provide for the administration of Departments of State and the offices aforesaid, the appointment of special advisors, the assignment of cross-departmental functions and the corporate status of certain public offices and to provide for related matters
Last updated 7 December 2020
- Minister for Finance Primary
- First StageSeanad
- Second StageSeanad
- Committee StageSeanad
- Report StageSeanad
- Fifth StageSeanad
- Second StageDáil
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- Report StageDáil
- Fifth StageDáil Enacted
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