Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management
12:50 pm
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Is it not all about governance? If proper governance and proper procurement practice were in place, some of the serious questions which have come up at the Committee of Public Accounts in the recent past may not have come up at all. I do not expect Mr. Watt to comment on the specifics I have raised but I am asking him to comment on the message he is delivering and how it is being heard. Are the relevant Departments and agencies hearing his message and subscribing to it? If they are, why is it that an old culture still exists?