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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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Right. That is okay. Does the Department carry out reviews of all the PPP projects? That is one of the issues that came up when the previous Committee of Public Accounts had hearings on the matter. Reviews were only done in a sample of cases. Does the Department carry out a review in every situation where there is a PPP?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform ask the sponsoring Department for reviews? How does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform satisfy itself if it does not have the evidence?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Moloney is saying he is satisfied with something that he does not have the evidence for. I do not see how he can make that claim.

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to discuss Benefacts. I will read from the conclusions of the Indecon report: “The overall benefits of the Benefacts’ service are likely to be in excess of the costs”. It also referred to a need for more specialised data and expanding on the service. Indecon’s analysis reads: “The methodologies used by Benefacts are appropriate and are in line with...

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Has Mr. Moloney read it?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Moloney involved in writing to the various Departments?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Moloney wrote to the Departments without reading the Indecon report.

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: So, Mr. Moloney is going to shut something down without having read an analysis that was provided to the Department.

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: According to the conclusions, the Government might have needed to put transitional arrangements in place. They speak about requiring this information for good governance. I presume that Mr. Moloney was briefed on the first couple of pages of the conclusions. All of what I have said is in those.

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is it intended that Pobal will develop a database?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Has the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform oversight of any of this?

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Moloney is telling us that other Departments did not believe that these data were necessary. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform shut Benefacts down. Now, one of the Departments that it engaged with is saying that it is interested in developing a replica database through Pobal. Nothing was put in place to keep the database populated, and databases quickly go redundant once...

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 (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I was also a member of the previous Committee of Public Accounts, and this is the first time that I have ever asked myself why the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform exists. Everything is for another Department. I do not see the big, powerful Department that I had thought was overseeing and co-ordinating. This has been a frustrating experience. If nothing else does, the Benefacts...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I was probably the member who requested this. Those records are held in Portlaoise, Chairman, so you are probably familiar with the location in which they are held. There are 8 million records. They are a treasure trove. They are one part of the Land Commission records. The other part are the ones that relate to Northern Ireland and they are available to view in the Public Record Office...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No, it was the Public Records Office in the Four Courts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The other issue is that it is only recently that the expansion has been allowed in the National Archives in Bishop Street. I visited the National Library some years ago with members of one of the committees and I was horrified at the risk at which we are putting our national collection. Money has been allocated for that since. This is bad news in this letter in that what has been agreed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We will be told what is there-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----but we will not be able to see them, even historical ones.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: One need only look at the census records. People no longer need to go into the National Archives because they can find them online. I am certainly not looking for somebody's information from two months ago - they are closed now anyway - or from the 1990s, Certainly, with things that are historical and over 100 years old, we do not seem to understand their value and the wider value.