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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: The perception that a supplier has performed a contract badly is not enough to exclude them-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: -----even if the contract stopped. One would have to prove and have evidence that the supplier was the party at fault. A contract might stop because it had been really poorly specified by the buyer. One might have ordered something that was impossible to deliver or that would take too long or that did not actually solve the problem. If the contract stops at some point, to prove, to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: In that case, a supplier could be excluded from making another bid in the future. I think the Deputy's question at the start was whether there is a network for different public sector buyers to tell each other that somebody has been convicted or has been successfully sued. Was that the question?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I am not aware whether there is a channel for buyers to share information on particular suppliers who have been found to be non-compliant.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: That is a very fair concern to have and I am happy to look into it or investigate it and give a more detailed response.

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I am pleased to address the House on the Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023. I thank Senators for the opportunity to present this Bill. The main purpose of the Bill is to strengthen the statutory provisions available to Government to respond to a severe or prolonged oil emergency in the context of ensuring adequate supplies for the...

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I will address a number of the points that have been made by Senators. Three Senators raised the general concept that we are talking about here with regard to security of supply and the fact that the right long-term way to achieve this is by reducing our dependence on oil. Senator Reilly mentioned that in the context of having further offshore wind near Galway. Senator Horkan made a...

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: It is very good that we clarify that. I thank Senator Horkan for raising the question. We need to be very clear that the threshold for what constitutes an emergency is not changing from the working definition, which has been in place for more than 50 years. Second, we need to be clear this is a matter for Government decision rather than one to be decided on by the Minister on his own....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputy for raising this Topical Issue. I have been asked to point out that the matter, although important in the area of fisheries, is not the responsibility of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is lead on the International Labour Organization, ILO, and the Department of Transport would be central on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: No.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputy. He made a clear distinction between the plight of fishermen who are working on Irish-registered ships and those who are working on foreign-registered ships within Irish waters. While progress has been made on those on Irish-registered ships, and the Deputy has acknowledged that, we have not yet implemented the Work in Fishing Convention but it is the intention of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: Is it Deputy Stanley's matter?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I am.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: The Minister for Education has asked me to answer this question on her behalf. This provides me with the opportunity to clarify the position in relation to the Department of Education's plans for upgrading school buildings, including St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, County Laois. The Deputy may be aware that St. Fergal's College is a multidenominational, co-educational, post-primary school...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I hear the Deputy loud and clear. He wants St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, to be provided with a PE hall in the interests of equity and he wants me to take that message back to the Minister, Deputy Foley. I will do that. The current situation is that the existing additional schools accommodation scheme does not include provision for PE halls and yet the national development plan is a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Collection (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Senator Ward for raising this matter which, of course, I consider a priority. Ireland's national waste policy, a Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2020, sets out Ireland's commitment to tackle the environmental degradation caused by single-use plastics and packaging and includes our ambition to lead EU efforts in dealing with disposable cups through the introduction of a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Collection (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I assure Senator Ward that the consultation is a genuine exercise. The point of it is that we receive submissions from people who have first-hand, domain expertise because all they do all day is sell coffee or make paper cups or whatever. It would not be right for me to design these things from a desktop point of view. I wait for what comes in and I am surprised by what comes in and then I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waterways Issues (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Senator O'Loughlin for affording me the opportunity to speak about the blueway. The rural regeneration and development fund was established under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 to provide investment for ambitious projects in towns and villages with populations of fewer than 10,000 people and outlying areas. It will deliver on the national strategic objective of strengthened...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waterways Issues (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I agree with everything the Senator has said. A 46 km free facility which people can use to have a day out with their friends and family at no cost is a huge thing to deliver. It will be very significant and to have 46 km of this is amazing. My experience of being on the Mayo greenway is that I saw so many people employed along the way, whether in hotels, cafés or restaurants, with...

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: Amendments Nos.1, 21 to 29 and 31 to 34, inclusive, relate to the transfer of renewable transport fuel functions from the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to the Minister for Transport, as set out in Part 3 and, inter alia, under section 18, the power of the Minister for Transport to make regulations concerning the functions under Part 5A of the Act, which is the...