Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
When we look at the waste of taxpayers' money on the failed IT project we just discussed, there are also the PPP; nearly €1.5 million spent on a security hut in the Department of Finance next door; €600,000 for a revamp at the Department of Transport; the shop out the front of this building was €1.3 million; and then the bike shed. Who had oversight of all those projects? Who am I to blame or whose head should be on the chopping board for all those incidents? The Department is supposed to have oversight of everything. Maybe it is not the Department; I do not know. What is the difference? The Department of Finance gives the Department the money to have oversight and ensure this does not happen but as far as I can see, there is a lot of wastage of taxpayers' money. If it was my money, it would not be wasted and if it was Mr. Moloney's money, it would not be wasted but this is the taxpayers' money. I want to ensure their money is not being wasted. Whose responsibility is it?
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