Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government
9:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
They are certainly in our pipeline of projects. There is probably a small number that go back that far. When we put the four-stage general approval framework process in place, it was a reduction from nine stages. We certainly cut a lot out of it and we received Department of Public Expenditure and Reform approval for it. As I said, we introduced the one-stage process. One of the practical issues that arise in the four-stage process is that when project costs move on to the pre-tender stage, they can change. We have to go through a process to understand why they have changed and whether value for money is still being delivered. There can be legitimate reasons they change. However, we have to go through that process in order that they do not-----
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