Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Absolutely, it does. That is the reason it could not continue as a pilot project. It was reviewed and was found not to be value for money. At that stage, we consulted with every Department and agency we could think of that might have an interest in the data and that might have an interest in taking over some or all of it. None of those Departments or agencies felt the particular solution to their data needs went in this direction.
The Deputy mentioned that people found out about this very late. We first wrote to Benefacts about this in July 2020 and it finished in March 2022.