Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
9:30 am
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source
The Minister knows me better than I thought he did. I refer to the Office of Government Procurement. I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts. I am jumping between committees. The Comptroller and Auditor General does various reports and we are finalising one today. An example is the report where we found there were serious flaws in respect of €3.8 billion going to section 38 companies and how procurement was carried out. It is a huge amount of money. It is 38% of funding of the HSE.
We are also hearing issues coming to the fore in respect of Garda contracts relating to IT. Again, we are talking about huge amounts of money. One contract that was not tendered was for €26.5 million. What is the consequence or the impact in respect of how Government procurement changes as a result of the reports that are generated and the items identified through this process?
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