1. What is the Organisational Review Programme (ORP)?
The Organisational Review Programme or ORP was established in 2007 to review the capabilities of all Government Departments and major Offices to deliver citizen focused public services into the future. Three Departments were reviewed in the first phase: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Enterprise, Trade and Employment; and Transport. A copy of the first report of the ORP is available at www.orp.ie
The Organisational Review Programme has now been extended so that all Government Departments and major Offices will be reviewed within the next three years. The four organisations reviewed in 2009 were the Department of Health and Children, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the Central Statistics Office and the Property Registration Authority.
2. How are these Reviews undertaken?
The Organisational Review Programme (ORP) is undertaken by a team of officials based in the Department of the Taoiseach, and working to a Steering Committee chaired by the Secretary General of that Department.
In conducting the reviews, the ORP Team assessed the current and likely future capacities of the Departments under review on three core grounds:
• How effective is the Department at developing strategy?
• How good is it at managing delivery, especially to customers?
• Does it evaluate what it does and do the findings feed back into new policies?