Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Mr. David Moloney:

We have greatly improved our approach to public procurement with the establishment of the Office of Government Procurement. The kinds of issues raised by the Chair are one of the reasons we did that in order to make procurement compliant with EU law and drive better value for money. Any suggestion of professional misconduct, which is what the Chair is describing, and proven professional misconduct, albeit in other jurisdictions, is a matter of concern and one we would be happy to follow up on with the CCCP through the OGP.