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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: I thank the officials for attending. Deputy Eoghan Murphy has covered many of the issues I wanted to raise, but I will circle back over a few of them. I would like to focus on the national framework agreements. How much of the procurement are the offices of Ms McGrath and Mr. Quinn overseeing or responsible for? How much is covered by national 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: 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: We should tease out the inference Mr. Campbell is making. Of the expenditure that is not covered by framework agreements, of course, it would still have to be cognisant of procurement policies within the organisation and EU competition law. I was not suggesting there was a kind of "wild west" of procurement. We have had this big discussion about framework agreements but they only cover 3%...
- 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 have some specific questions on the future framework. I already made a point to Mr. Quinn on the nature of the framework models to which we are seeking to evolve. If we are in an environment with many buyers and suppliers, that is clearly inefficiency. I would argue there is also inefficiency in a model where there are many buyers and only a single supplier. We have talked about this...
- 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: Figure 14.2 deals with the framework agreements for the end of 2011. A number of the framework agreements have a single supplier against them. It is not my phone that is interfering with the sound recording and broadcasting equipment. I make the point that I turned my phone off completely.
- 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 might be an I-Pad. I will just keep going. I am not making any inference about any of these suppliers because I know they obtained these contracts through proper tenders and so on. However, if there is also a concentration of power at the supplier end, it could create difficulty for us.
- 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. Quinn will be aware of the broader consequences here that if all the business goes to one player, it has a knock-on effect that might mean that there is a procurement saving on paper there are broader consequences in the real economy resulting in it not being a direct saving to the State overall. The framework agreements are currently not mandatory and people have the option of entering...