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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Out of how much?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: The total value of the frameworks is €1.4 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: What is the base? It is €1.4 billion out of how much?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: It would, therefore, include a gigantic spend the OPW does not make. It would be made through all Departments. Is that why the figure is so high?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I was not about to ask that question which is a great one. I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: No, Mr. McCarthy may have given me thunder. We will see how the next question goes before I make my mind up or others do. To enable us to compare apples with apples because the Comptroller and Auditor General is correct, if I accept the €1.4 billion spend, to what do I compare it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Is that an annual figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: What is the total expenditure, including that not covered by framework agreements?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: This goes back to the earlier comment that the vast amount of the €6.6 billion spend is not made by the OPW but that, through its procurement function, it has oversight of the spend.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Approximately 3% of the total expenditure, therefore, is covered by framework agreements, which sounds low. I may be generalising, but most people say framework agreements are the way to go because they enable us to achieve efficiencies of scale and leverage the State covenant, as Ms McGrath stated. We have discussed this issue with HSE officials also. However, only 3% of expenditure is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: That will be a gigantic change. The key issue is not the operation of the framework agreements but why there are so few of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Mr. Campbell is nodding in agreement. I am eager to understand. We are focusing on framework agreements, but I have worked out that 3% of overall expenditure is covered by them. What are the key reasons framework agreements are not in place for the remaining 97%?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Embarrassingly, that was me. I thought I had turned it off. I apologise.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does any other member have a question? No. I thank the witnesses for their contribution to this area and the Chairman for his responses. I propose we suspend the meeting until 11.55 a.m. when we will start off with Deputy Nash on other issues in the report. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Does any other colleague want to come in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: Sure, absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) Paschal Donohoe: What we agreed was that any other committee member who wished to speak on the topic could do so and when this part of the meeting is complete we will move back to the rest of the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: On that point, have we received responses from the other witnesses we contacted in regard to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
Paschal Donohoe: Absolutely.