Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
We will take it up. The fact the HSE now has the data and we understand the problem will enable us to improve performance and address it. Without the data, one cannot measure or improve. We are happy to continue providing support and clarity under procurement functions. The HSE management and the Department of Health accept it has not been adequate. We are working with them to address this. What would be useful - it is something that Mr. Paul Quinn’s Office of Government Procurement team can come up with - would be to look at the data on non-compliance across the system for the latest year. What the Chairman described is not a trend because it was under-reported in 2012. It identifies a problem. We do not know whether it is getting worse or better. Obviously, there is a reporting issue, as opposed to it being a trend.