Head of Public Service Transformation

Marianne Cassidy is the Assistant Secretary General, heading up the Public Service Transformation Division in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Department’s mission is to serve the public interest through sound governance of public expenditure and leading and enabling reform across the Civil and Public Service. Marianne has responsibility for leading and supporting Public Service Transformation including driving the implementation of the 10-year Strategy CSR 2030 and shaping the successor to OPS2020. She is also responsible for the Department’s Communications Unit and the Central Vote, the Department-of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Vote and the DPER Corporate Bodies Unit.

Prior to joining DPER in March 2022, Marianne was the Head of Civil Reform for the Modernisation Programme of the Courts Service which aims at providing quicker and easier access to justice for all.  Before heading up Civil Reform, Marianne was Eastern Regional Manager for four and a half years with responsibility for the operational, legal and financial governance of seven County Circuit and District combined Court offices. Marianne also made a noteworthy contribution in driving change as the Senior Responsible Owner for Courts Office Review Implementation (CORI) reform programme. Through innovation and partnership with experienced staff, CORI delivered the centralisation of jury summons, centralisation of service of foreign documents, the devising of a new customer charter and the roll out of a new management structure.

Before joining the Courts Service in 2016, Marianne held strategic and leadership positions in a range of public sector organisations including, as the first Head of Investigations for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office and as the Public Transport Regulation Manager for the National Transport Authority. Marianne holds a Masters in Public Administration from Science Po Paris, a Masters in Social Policy from UCD and a Professional Certificate in Governance from the IPA. She is the proud mother of two sets of twins.