Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
4:30 pm
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
On that, I just had a quick glance over this. Essentially, this is in regard to procurement. We had asked for a briefing and they sent us a comprehensive response - comprehensive in that it is lengthy. However, it essentially just repeats the information, and its core aspect is that it repeats the lack of appropriate ICT capacity and integration, saying again that this is the key constraint in terms of their ability to accurately and effectively track and mitigate procurement non-compliance. One would imagine an organisation like the HSE that is dealing with hundreds of millions of euro of public money would do something about a key constraint. I do not see in this briefing anything that sets out a clear indication as to what the HSE is going to do about it, although it sets out the problem. I would like to ask the Comptroller and Auditor General for comment as to whether he suggests there is anything the committee could do in this respect.
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