Abstract
The need to shrink the state in an orderly manner at a time when demand for public services was increasing necessarily involved cutbacks and various forms of organisational rationalisation. In this chapter, the cutback approaches adopted prior to and after the creation of DPER are presented, before the major organisational reform and rationalisation projects undertaken by the Department are considered. These include shared services, procurement consolidation, reform of information technology infrastructure, state agency rationalization and reforms in the state-owned enterprise sector. The chapter concludes by looking at how reform and rationalization measures were coordinated across the political and administrative arenas.
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MacCarthaigh, M. (2017). Shrinking the State: Organisational Reform and Rationalisation. In: Public Sector Reform in Ireland. Executive Politics and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57460-8_5
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