Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement

1:00 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Yes, I just wanted to add to the information that has been provided by the other witnesses. Internal audit and the audit committee of a public sector body should also be, on a fairly systematic basis, going through the procurement that is undertaken by the relevant Department. There are systems in place to capture where contract overruns are occurring. The difficulty is to aggregate it, which is exactly what the Deputy has put her finger on. The requirement on public sector bodies to disclose information about where they have non-compliant procurement is really the key to getting that information on a regular basis directly from the individual bodies.

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