Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Mr. Ken Spratt:
Given that we are on the subject, I offer my deepest sympathies to the families of Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, Captain Mark Duffy, Mr. Paul Ormsby and Mr. Ciaran Smith. As I understand it, once we go out through a procurement process to procure a service, matters relating to being sued or liability are matters for the service provider that is bidding into the system. Having been involved in several procurement processes, I have found that tends to be the case.