Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 May 2024
162. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline the spending to date on the development, implementation and rollout of the financial management shared services system for the public sector, in tabular form, and classed by company; the timeline or timeframe; and the purpose and desired or completed output. [21160/24]
View answerI am advised by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) that €78.4 million of the €115 million capital envelope for the rollout of the financial management shared services system has been expended to date. This expenditure has allowed the NSSO to deliver 80 per cent of the estimated technical design and system build.
I am advised by the NSSO that expenditure by company to date is as reflected in the table below.
|
Supplier Name |
Amount (€) |
|
Accenture Consulting |
30,726,787 |
|
EY |
14,816,473 |
|
Wages & Salaries |
14,305,340 |
|
Deloitte |
6,203,654 |
|
Oracle |
1,679,543 |
|
OPW |
1,673,949 |
|
Evros |
1,500,525 |
|
Oracle Emea Ltd |
1,119,500 |
|
CPL Solutions Ltd |
840,264 |
|
Next Generation Ltd |
643,542 |
|
IT Force Ltd |
600,880 |
|
Others (circa 140 individual suppliers) |
4,486,940 |
|
Gross Expenditure |
78,597,397 |
|
Receipts |
(196,539) |
|
Net Expenditure |
78,400,858 |
Note: Receipts comprise EU grant re E-Invoicing and other miscellaneous receipts
Finance Shared Services is now in its third year of service delivery. Eight Departments/Offices were part of Wave 1 and the Wave 2 sees a further 13 clients to be on-boarded with a rollout expected to proceed from mid-2025. This will see almost 50 per cent of all prospective clients within the scope of the project onboarded.
The NSSO has commenced initial engagement for Wave 3, and engagement with Wave 4 will commence later in 2024. Wave 3 will consist of approximately 16 clients with a further 13 Departments / Offices in Wave 4. The timeline for full deployment of these waves is subject to detailed planning.
The desired outputs from the project will be:
• the standardisation of accounting processes across central government;
• the modernisation of finance in government with end to end integrated financial controls;
• compliance with existing and emerging international reporting and transparency requirements and agility in responding to further changing international reporting requirements;
• a platform for compliance with EU directives in eProcurement;
• support for the professionalisation of finance teams across government; and
• enhanced and enriched financial data to enable data analytics.
