Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

4:30 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Yes. Since we started paying attention to it, there has been a reduction. We generally draw attention where there is non-compliant procurement in excess of €500,000. That could be a large amount for a small body or a small amount for a large body but, cumulatively, by coming back at it year after year, we have driven down the value of procurement that is non-compliant. Tipperary ETB is working towards eliminating non-compliance or, at least, getting it below the threshold of €500,000. Also, a lot of the correspondence is responses to the committee having written to them where I have drawn attention to non-compliance in the past. Members may remember there was a large number of bodies whose accounts came before the committee in respect of which the clerk would have written and asked for a further explanation. A lot of that information is now coming in. I think that is why there is such an amount of it in the correspondence this week.

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