– Speech by Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform – Launch of the Civil Service Renewal Plan 30 October 2014

Speech by Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform – Launch of the Civil Service Renewal Plan 30 October 2014

Introduction

Thank you Taoiseach

Good morning ladies and gentleman. I am delighted to be part of this important day for the Civil Service.

The Civil Service operates at the centre of Government and plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of the country. We must, therefore, have a Civil Service that is effective, efficient and ready to meet current and future challenges.

Civil Service Renewal is a core strand of the Government’s wider Public Service Reform programme, which itself has been, and will continue to be, an important part of our strategy for recovery.

Civil Service Renewal Plan

The Renewal Plan sets out clear steps to ensure that the Civil Service has the capability and capacity to perform at the highest level possible. It also focuses on the issues set out in the work of the Independent Panel on Accountability and Performance, in particular to ensure that our civil servants are fully accountable and the public know ‘who does what and to whom are they accountable’. The Plan articulates a new vision for the Civil Service which will underpin its development as it sets out to implement its renewal strategy over the next 3 years.

Our focus in recent years has been on addressing the considerable challenges of restoring the public finances, managing within constraints and maintaining public services. The Civil Service and civil servants themselves have played a key role in managing these very difficult challenges. Enormous change has occurred in that difficult period.

Now we need to ensure that our Civil Service organisations and their staff are given the right tools and supports to meet the challenges ahead.

I, and my ministerial colleagues, witness the strengths of civil servants and their commitment to public service every day. The Plan builds on those strong foundations. There are things that are done very well and there are things that can be improved upon.

The Civil Service has core strengths. It has always been open to change but the system has not always delivered on reform initiatives and there has been a mixed consistency of implementation. That is why there is a strong emphasis on implementation in the Plan. We have undoubtedly learned from lessons of the past.

The Civil Service has a strong track record in many areas. Examples of recent achievements include our successful EU Presidency and dealing with the TROIKA programme.

Civil servants have also succeeded in delivering services with reduced resources and in the face of increased demands for those services. However we can all improve the way we work in all walks of life and have the ambition to continuously improve.

The Renewal Plan has been informed by the outcomes of two significant strands of work. The Independent Panel on Strengthening Accountability and Performance in the Civil Service managed a public consultation process based on a series of commitments in the Programme for Government and associated Consultation Paper. I published the Panel’s Report in June last. The work of the Civil Service Renewal Taskforce, a group of civil servants and overseen by Secretaries General, has led a programme of work for 12 months on assessing the areas which need to be addressed under the renewal agenda.

At the heart of the Plan is a framework for change made up of 4 key themes:

· Professional – taking action to improve the level of professionalism in how the Civil Service operates;

· Responsive – taking action to improve how the Civil Service is geared up to respond to demands;

· Open and accountable – taking action to ensure the Civil Service openly engages and accounts for what it does; and

· Unified – taking action to ensure that the Civil Service works in a better collective way.

These key themes will be underpinned by a focus on ensuring Delivery of the Plan to ensure real improvements for the people and the State that the Civil Service serves.

Levels of public trust in the institutions of the State have been challenged in recent years. The Renewal Plan is part of the Government’s commitment to restoring that trust, through increased transparency in the Civil Service and how it works.

There are 25 headline actions in the Plan, broken down further into specific and practical sub-actions.

I invite you all to review them as they represent an ambitious programme of reform. This will be transformational and will meet head-on the various criticisms that we sometimes hear of the way the Civil Service goes about its business.

Details of the Renewal Plan

I will just mention a few of the things that we will be doing as part of the implementation of the Renewal Plan.

Under the Plan, we will establish new structures to ensure greater focus on performance and delivery at the highest levels, through the new Civil Service Accountability Board, the Civil Service Management Board and the first performance review process for Secretaries General.

We will strengthen our capacity in important areas such as HR, project management and policy development.

We will improve how we manage our people and their performance to ensure that good performance is rewarded and poor performance is dealt with properly.

We will engage better with our staff and use their experience and insights into how we can improve, including through the first ever survey of civil servants.

There will be new recruitment competitions to enhance our skills base and to ensure that we get the right people in the right posts. We will also manage our talent better to ensure that civil servants can continue to grow and develop, and to ensure that they have the opportunity to maximise their contribution.

We will share information better across Departments and Offices to improve how different parts of the Civil Service work together for their customers, regardless of organisational boundaries.

And we will standardise governance, strengthen strategic planning and review organisational performance to ensure that Departments and Office are fit-for-purpose and delivering on their commitments to both staff and customers.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that the Renewal Plan is challenging. However, I also have no doubt that Civil Service leaders, managers and staff will embrace its implementation.

Implementation will be managed by the new Civil Service Management Board of Secretaries General. For the first time, we will see collective management at the most senior levels in the system. The new Accountability Board, chaired by the Taoiseach, will provide oversight on accountability and performance across the Civil Service. These are important new structures which will give assurance to the public and the Government and civil servants themselves that things are being done in the right way and objectives are being met.

The Plan is for three years but there is no endpoint as such – renewal is about an ongoing process of change and reform. As we proceed, we will be availing of other opportunities to do things better, as they arise.

I wish to thank all of those who have shaped this Plan – the Civil Service Renewal Taskforce, the Report of the Independent Panel on Strengthening Accountability and Performance, the staff that participated in the engagement process and all of the other stakeholders that got involved.

Finally, I look forward to leading the ambitious programme of change set out in the Plan. I also look forward to seeing the positive impacts of the changes as they are delivered, and as we work to provide a world-class service to the State and to the people of Ireland.

Thank you.

ENDS

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