Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would want more information from them. I would want to know exactly the nature of this specialist high-level input. It is not good enough to just give us a paragraph stating it provided high-level input. What was the nature of it? How much did the advice PwC gave cost? On what exactly was it advising? At what senior level was it in PwC? We do not know the volume of work PwC did but we can only take at face value what is here, namely, specialist high-level input. We need a much deeper breakdown of that because we need to be fair to the organisation as well. It is being disingenuous in saying it was not involved in the subsequent decision making. Of course it was not. The Government makes the decisions. That is a clear sleight of hand and an attempt to try to pull the wool over our eyes. No consultancy firm is involved in decision making but they are involved in compiling reports which help the Government make decisions, and the Government relies on that advice. Without a doubt, at a level PwC was involved in-----

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