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:
They were around some of the technology bugs. We had some fixes for the technology. There were issues around staff in terms of whether we had the right people with the right skills in the right places - management issues. Those were the sort of issues. We have learned a lot within the Department which we have applied to the payroll shared services, which is the second project, and also the next one, financial management, which is more significant again. We are trying to learn the lessons from PeoplePoint in terms of-----