Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013
10:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Why did the Department not appoint a judge who was in the country?
We are not so short of retired judges. Is this matter not urgent? I will move on, but there will be more about this because in 2015 the Department of Finance is still appointing consultants without a tendering process and giving them a blank cheque to do a job. A couple of weeks into it they will ask for a scoping document and there will be argy-bargy about the few extra hours they will take. Does Mr. Moran have an indicative figure, to the nearest million, as to what this process will cost?