Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

In my Department, no. From my perspective, and I am sure it was the case for predecessors in my Department, I am much more interested in figuring out what we can learn when there are failures in this regard and in how we put in place systems to ensure they do not happen again. I think we placed a lot of store in DETI in terms of its role in the day-to-day operation of the project, perhaps too much store. However, to be frank, I do not believe that anything was done by any of the staff members in my Department that merited the sort of actions the Chairman has outlined.