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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
John McGuinness: We have invited others to attend. Mr. Bradshaw was the only person to respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
John McGuinness: The Deputy may remember that at a previous meeting he named the individuals he would like to come before us. We then wrote to them and Mr. Bradshaw was the only one who responded. We are awaiting a response from the others.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
John McGuinness: I am reminded that in our last discussion on this matter we named some individuals who we would like to come before the committee. Perhaps we should write to the full board. That means no one would be singled out and the board itself would be asked to come before us. That may change people's views.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
John McGuinness: If we can formally agree that now, the clerk can write to those who have not been written to, and maybe inform those who have been written to that all of the board is being invited to come before the committee. That is probably the best way of dealing with the matter. Is it agreed that the clerk do that? Agreed. Is No. 3B.6 in regard to how we sequence the meetings relevant to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 May 2013)
John McGuinness: We will meet again on Thursday of that week. We will deal with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Do members have any other business in regard to No. 6? We have to agree our agenda for Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 10 a.m. We will meet the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The agenda for the meeting will consist of the 2011 appropriation accounts...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: We are dealing with No. 7, 2011 appropriation accounts and annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, Vote 10 - Office of Public Works, chapter 14, Measuring Procurement Performance. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off all mobile telephones as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. By virtue of section...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: I invite the officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to introduce themselves.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: I invite Mr. Seamus McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General, to introduce the accounts in an opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: I thank Ms McGrath. May we publish her statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: Not for this part. If the Deputy would like to deal with the 2011 account, I would be quite happy to ask a member from the Government side to chair the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: We will have to organise matters before the Deputy does so. If other members also wish to address this issue, then I ask that someone from the Government side volunteer to chair this part of proceedings. As the Vice Chairman is not present, perhaps Deputy Donohoe might agree to do so. I will vacate the Chair while the committee is dealing with this matter and thereafter we can return to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: I do, if that is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: I am sure that does not surprise the Acting Chairman. I welcome the exchange here this morning. It has been quite informative, from toilet rolls to refurbishment. I hope it will help those outside of the debate to understand what went on in this project. I can ask some questions on this matter because we are now dealing with the OPW, not the Department. I can feel free to ask those...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: Was it an e-mail? Ms McGrath confirms in her letter that it was by telephone call first and then by e-mail.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: That e-mail was sent on 5 July, and the telephone request was made around the same time. The date was 5 July. The brief was prepared, as I understand it, in line with Civil Service norms - Ms McGrath states that in her letter also - and it was not something that was concocted out of the blue. In terms of the planning, it adhered to Civil Service norms. What Ms McGrath is saying in 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) John McGuinness: There was no space available in the building concerned relevant to that standard of ministerial space and it was a new construct. In terms of the cost, which is critical, I worked in that office and if one told me on the day I entered the office that it cost that much, I certainly would not have believed you. If I had known then what I know now, I probably would have added a further chapter...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: Is the Bruce Shaw handbook a book of costs by which one can make a reasonable comparison?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: In making that comparison with this Bruce Shaw handbook, did someone in Ms McGrath's organisation decide, "Yes, this is value for money"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: Was that the test of the brief and the test of the tender process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013) John McGuinness: How many tendered for the job?