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
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I listened carefully to him this morning about the way the Department spends and seeks value for money. Not enough care is given to the spending of taxpayers' money on the other side of this issue. My evidence for saying so is that the HSE day-in and day-out wastes money. Yesterday, we saw a scandalous waste of €2.3 million by the Irish State. A total of €4.3 million was wasted between the North and South and they failed to pick up on EU funding. These are the things that we are missing.
What penalties or sanctions, can the Secretary General take to deal with a spending Department that completely ignores the process, which is what has been borne out in the evidence from the HSE and other Departments?
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