The Institute of Public Administration will support the Government's proposals to deliver a better civil and public service "in whatever way we can", the director general of the institute John Cullen said yesterday.
Mr Cullen told the institute's annual conference yesterday that the Taoiseach had identified "some very, very exciting initiatives for the public service".
While he noted performance indicators were already in place in some parts of the public sector, he acknowledged it as "an initiative which will challenge us at all levels in the public sector".
He added the external reviews of departments and agencies and the leadership initiative announced by the Taoiseach would find the institute "ready, willing and able to help in any way we can".
The conference examined reforms in the public service in the past 10 years, as speakers addressed how the public sector could meet challenges created by social, environmental, legal and economic changes.
According to John Sweeney, of the National Economic and Social Council, the buoyant economy had freed Ireland from "the dead weight of a chronic labour surplus and the cancer of emigration and population decline". However people felt the public service was struggling to keep pace.
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