Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement

9:00 am

Mr. David O'Brien:

That would not necessarily reflect the actual situation. The Department of Health set up a specific delivery board and an executive group that have the requisite expertise. That is not normal where projects are concerned, and there is expertise there. Context is very important. We had an industry that did not show any signs of life until September 2013. The issue is that when the meetings and the discussions were being had about this two-stage process or the procurement strategy, there were serious concerns on the part of the project development board and the hospital board as to whether the industry here had the capacity to deliver this project at the outset, as the initial engagements were being had. The tendering strategy had to reflect this and that is why there is this different approach.

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