Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

 

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I met my colleague, who is a member of this board, to have a discussion with him on his experience on the board because I am conscious of the fact that his role in this is, understandably, being debated and questioned in the way the Chairman has done, and which he is entitled to do. In my meeting with Mr. Quinn, my official who is on the board and who leads the Office of Government Procurement and whose name has been mentioned elsewhere, he informed me that from the summer onwards, he could see this matter being dealt by the board of the children's hospital.

He could see that engagement was taking place between the Department of Health and the HSE on the board. He judged that his responsibilities as a member of the board were being discharged fully. In all of the engagement I have had with him over the last number of years, I have found him to be a superb professional on procurement policy who I know will have taken his responsibilities on the board very seriously.

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