Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Maybe to give a more stark example of this, the children's hospital goes through the procurement process, all the t's are crossed and i's are dotted, and they follow the rule that the Minister of State has set down in terms of procurement. It is fair to say that it has all gone wrong. Was it that the procurement process itself was weak, was it that the contracts are weak, or what has caused not only that problem but others across the various Departments? Is the Minister of State examining that because some paperwork within all of this process has failed?
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