Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Let me compliment the HSE then on successfully capturing its non-procurement data. In capturing the non-procurement data, it is crucifying itself. There were 32 cases in 2012, 116 in 2013 and 299 in 2014. If the Department does not intervene with the HSE, which is now attempting to procure one financial system for the organisation as well as other major projects, we will be back to a position where money will be lost and there will be no value for money for the taxpayer. I do not mind complimenting those which did well. However, those not within the system must be warned to come within it.
The Higher Education Authority, HEA, the Department of Education and Skills and third level institutions are just as bad. When one gets a third level institution saying it is employing a threshold of €60,000 against the €25,000 limit requested by the Department, it is telling the Department to get lost. I do not believe Mr. Watt is the kind of fellow who would accept that. Is he?
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