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
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Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
-----for small and medium enterprises that would like to get some of that. We have approached it from an absolute value perspective.
There are many reasons there may be non-competitive procurement. The Secretary General has outlined some of those. Some of them make sense but there are still strategies that need to be applied. For instance, if one is tied into a particular supplier, one needs to ensure when doing a business case for procuring that kind of service that one takes a whole-of-life view. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would certainly agree with that kind of approach. We need to see the evidence of that to be satisfied that it is a proper approach. There are other reasons and they may be individual reasons that arise from time to time. It may even be personnel problems in an organisation. We would need to look at getting a statistic for the Deputy.
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