Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is anyone who was diagnosed and put on the registry. Some of them would have come through non-screening services, while some of them would have come through screening services. As I said, that is the question that now needs to be asked. Is he meeting both?

On procurement, which was touched on earlier, is it fair to say there is too much weighting put on the lowest tender, and that is causing some of the issues? Most countries which use PPP go with the medium, or in-between. There is not so much focus put on the lowest tender. We have now seen the consequences of focus being put on the lowest tender. I know it is a policy decision. The National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, was given a statutory mandate under the 2007 amendment. Will Mr. O'Kelly talk us through that? Is it down to the Department of Finance or is it through the legislation that more weight is given to the lowest tender?

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