Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
Consultancy fees, yes. We would have partnered with an external provider to help us with this. This is an enormous change management project. We went from 48 public bodies doing it in a particular way to a cleaning data, and then transferring it into a centre with all the complications. It has thrown up a number of issues that are now coming to light, which are very helpful for managers.
We will not see the benefits for a number of years. Elements of the start-up were slower than we thought. We made some mistakes along the way so it has been slower, but progress is reasonable and we believe we will get to where we want to get to after a period.
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