Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012
1:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We do not have that expertise or staff in place to go and visit sites, so we would have put in place an arrangement where we have a service provided to us.
One of the advantages of outsourcing with something like that is one has a service that one only uses when one needs it, so one does not have to keep the staff employed. Another example of outsourcing which is not directly by ourselves but is undertaken by SUSI is the outsourcing of a number of elements of the service.