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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: No attribution of blame because that is -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Clonan's and Ms O'Keeffe's respective roles are private and not to be discussed here, but will they deal with the specific issues Senator Craughwell has raised? The nub of what the Senator asks is, in respect of the establishment of a representative body, whether it has been possible to locate the terms. Has it been possible to print and circulate them? If the Coast Guard has a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are they appointed by the volunteers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the two bodies are joined at the hip, Mr. Clonan, maybe that is the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Clonan, with due respect, I have read the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, as have other members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Once a purchase was below €500,000, it did not have to go out to tender. It could be done through the Coast Guard. The contract was for €160,000. That sum miraculously ended up becoming €1.4 million. When the contract was put out for public tender, it had an estimated value of €160,000. Therefore, a business case was not required to go to the Department, yet...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, Mr. Clonan, how did that happen? How did the Coast Guard put out a tender for a project worth €160,000 which did not require any business case to go to the Department and which suddenly ballooned into a €1.4 million contract that never got Department approval? How in the name of God did that happen in the Irish Coast Guard? We talk about corporate changes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: If you would like to do so, yes, Ms O'Keeffe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms O'Keeffe, I am sorry. We have only one question here: how did this happen? It is all very well saying the Department is changing its systems. We have a fiduciary duty as public representatives to get value for money for the public purse. Two things happened here. A contract for €160,000 was put out to tender so no business case had to be made to the Department. Then the value...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: You do not know even at this point, four or five years later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: When was the first time the Irish Coast Guard knew about this discrepancy of about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: You are saying to me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has any disciplinary action been taken against anyone in the Irish Coast Guard on foot of this stark and appalling revelation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: For instance, are the people who were involved in the procurement and doing the work within the Irish Coast Guard still working in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, this is grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable, GUBU, territory. This is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect Mr. Clonan, your corporate governance and your financial systems were sleeping. The Coast Guard did not know about this until the Comptroller and Auditor General brought it to its attention. That meant this had gone through. The Department was not aware of it. Ms O'Keeffe, were you aware of it in the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would you have been the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, that is not what I am asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am asking about the fiduciary and the corporate. Was Ms O'Keeffe the assistant secretary over this section at that moment in time?