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Executive summary | Table of contents | How to obtain this publication
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OECD Public Management Reviews - Ireland: Towards an Integrated Public Service
Ireland's economic success story is one that many OECD countries would like to emulate. Of the many factors linked to this success, understanding the public sector’s role is key. What has the Irish public service accomplished already? How can it keep renewing itself to meet changing economic, demographic and social challenges? And how can it continue to meet the needs and expectations of government and citizens?
Integration matters. The key public service reform challenge for Ireland going forward is for the different parts of the Irish Public Service to work cohesively together, with a more integrated approach at the national and local levels. This will allow Ireland to more effectively identify and achieve wider societal goals, and to deliver more coherent services to citizens.
This report is the first in a series of OECD country reviews that will look at public management reform and governance issues from a comprehensive perspective. These reviews will help countries to identify how reforms can better reinforce each other in support of overall government objectives. They also examine reform strategies that have worked in other countries and provide advice as to which reforms can be appropriately adapted to a given country.
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Executive summary
As with many other OECD countries that have embarked on significant public service transformation programmes, the focus of the reform efforts to date in Ireland has tended, with some exceptions, to be inward oriented, focusing on improving internal processes and structures. Initiatives, in line with those undertaken in many OECD countries, have focused on a broad range of internal processes to build capacity at individual and organisational levels, improve service delivery, develop organisational and individual performance management, establish governance procedures, create greater transparency, improve consultation and increase the use of evidence-based policy making.
These changes were not only significant, but necessary and the OECD recognises the value of the reforms made, particularly since the development of the Strategic Management Initiative and the publication of Delivering Better Government in the mid 1990s. While the full benefit of some of the more recent reforms, such as the production of departments’ Annual Output Statements linking annual targets to annual expenditure allocations, have yet to be fully realised, broadly speaking Ireland is on a sound trajectory of modernisation. And it can further improve the yield from reforms by renewing focus on their pace and sequencing in order to make them more mutually reinforcing.
Table of contents
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Executive Summary
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Chapter 1. Main Assessments and Recommendations
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Chapter 2. Fiscal and Demographic Developments
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Chapter 3. The Irish Public Service
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Chapter 4. Ensuring Capacity
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Chapter 5. Motivating Performance
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Chapter 6. Moving Toward a Citizen-centred Approach
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Chapter 7. Strengthening Governance
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Case Study 1. Reconfiguration of Hospital Services
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Case Study 2. Managing Agencies
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Case Study 3. Local Waste Management in Ireland
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Case Study 4. School Planning in the Educational Sector
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Bibliography
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Annex A. Methodology
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Annex B. Consultation
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