Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
There is no intention to lock out any sector or SME companies from competing.
We saw these reports last night which the committee is debating this morning. We would be very happy to sit down with the different groups - Mr. Quinn and I can meet them and members of the committee can engage in the conversation - and go through each of the points of contention. If there are issues of dispute, we should clarify them so we can respond. The committee has had dialogue with a group of people but we were not part of that dialogue and we are trying to respond.