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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask him to have his legal people available in the building-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: -----not necessarily to close down the meeting but available if they are willing to allow us to speak to them. We are agreed on this. People will ask why the Committee of Public Accounts is following this matter. We were dealing with this as a result of the 2016 financial statements and following through these contracts. The committee had good reason to test the evidence of the witnesses...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I absolutely agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have a private session when we finish public session today. At the end of the meeting in two weeks, the committee may formally bring its end of it to a conclusion and hand over to Dr. Scally before he completes his work. We should not let it just hang there. We will be focused as to why the witnesses are here. All the reference numbers to the items of correspondence I read out...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will schedule it for 9.30 a.m. after correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We might get correspondence out of the way. We will schedule the meeting for 9 o’clock. When we are finished with that, we will have a short recess and then continue with the business of the meeting with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and whoever else is scheduled to come on that day. We will finalise the timing arrangement in private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Jonathan O’Brien is quite right. We will have a discussion on timing in private session shortly. The availability of witnesses is important. I forgot to reference correspondence No. 1346C from Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I was giving the Deputy credit for sending an email directly on this. There are no account and statements this week. We will now suspend to allow witnesses to take their seats.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The committee will discuss issues on tendering and procurement regarding €26 million worth of ICT contracts in An Garda Síochána. This matter was discussed at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality’s meeting with the Policing Authority on 21 March. In our role, as public spending watchdog, we are following up on the matter as it relates to 2016...
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask Acting Commissioner Ó Cualáin to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Alan Kelly will be the first speaker and he will have 20 minutes. He will be followed by Deputies David Cullinane and Catherine Connolly. I have one question arising out of that because it is a matter that came across our desk in regard to another public body. It concerns the question of prepayments. The committee found that Dublin Institute of Technology lost in the order of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: What type of prepayment is it? Are we talking about hundreds of thousands?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have learned through bitter experience from previous organisations that have appeared before the committee. I want to impart the knowledge about what went wrong. I ask the witnesses to build it into their structures for the future. I do not know where Accenture came from but there is a big company called Arthur Andersen which was one of the big five and it was dissolved so nobody is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will ask Deputy Kelly to commence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: If the witnesses do not have the information here they can send it on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy probably raised this in the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will wrap up and the Deputy will get a second opportunity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are moving on to Deputy Cullinane. Deputy Kelly will be able to come back in a second time if he wishes. I welcome all our witnesses back again. I wish to start with Mr. Kelly. He wrote the audit and signed off on the audit report. Page 3 states that the Garda internal audit section had planned to conduct audits within the ICT directorate and would focus on a number of areas. Why was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it that the companies or the individuals have to be cleared?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: That probably adds an extra layer to the procurement process which would not normally apply in other processes in State agencies?