Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
I have said on a number of occasions that the problem is most specifically evident in the health sector and the HSE. There is a systemic problem in the HSE around procurement. We have reported on that. Every year the HSE accepts that it has a problem. There are very specific reasons for it and it is not making as much progress as either it or we would like to see.
In other organisations, we report where we identify procurement in excess of €500,000 that is not compliant with the relevant procurement rules. Certainly, there is a way of looking at it and saying that it is not particularly material in the overall scale of an organisation of, let us say, the size of a university, an institute of technology or whatever. That is the level that we are reporting at because there is no other way of drawing the line on materiality. If non-compliant procurement was more than 2%, let us say, that could be a huge sum of money that could have huge implications-----
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