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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I am not aware that that is provided for by way of a Standing Order. I cannot confirm whether it is or is not in a Standing Order but I am not aware of it if that is the case. I have not heard anybody say it is in a Standing Order. It may be just custom and practice. The committee secretariat will seek clarification on whether it is provided for in any Standing Order or other procedure...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We can arrange to meet the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser to get an initial opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: It would be useful for members to read the legal brief on the outcome of the Kerins Supreme Court judgment. It would be very useful for them to apprise themselves of it to see exactly the points set out and recommendations therein. In my opinion, what has been put in place has gone beyond what was recommended. The clerk will make the brief available to each member of the committee....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Members can study the brief in the meantime. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next matter on the agenda is No. 3, financial statements and accounts, of which there were 11 sets laid before the Dáil between 30 November and 11 December 2020. The Comptroller and Auditor General issued a qualified audit opinion for the National Cancer Registry Board. He states that the accounts...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I suggest that we seek an update from Tipperary ETB in regard to its €696,000 spend on procurement that did not go through proper procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We could look for the total figure paid in claims by ETBs-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: -----over the most recent five-year period that is available for each ETB. They have now been established for six years and it would be a useful exercise to know how much each one has had to pay out for claims against those public bodies. We can look for that. I will bring members back to the question about Tipperary ETB. Are we agreed that we are going to ask the secretariat to look...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy may.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We are on the Tipperary ETB, but we have gone into a bigger discussion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for that reply. There is an issue also around the members of the ETBs. I was a member of one of the old VECs. A lot of this happens and the members of the board of directors have no part at all in this. They are not involved, unfortunately. I think it is one of the weaknesses, and not just in the ETB system. It is also in the local government...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: There is a huge imbalance, and anyone who has sat on such boards will tell us that. Are the accounts and statements agreed? Agreed. The next item is correspondence and items that members have flagged. Item B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers, in follow up to the Committee of Public Accounts. No. 222 B is from Mr. Liam McGrath, acting chief executive officer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: The correspondence presents a very unsatisfactory picture. There has not even been a report of an estimate of non-compliance with procurement guidelines. At the back end of this year - a full year later - that even an estimate cannot be provided is unsatisfactory. It is important that we follow up on this. As per the work programme, we will have representatives of the HSE before us in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We can note what we have and publish it. At that stage we will deal with those matters and others that may have arisen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We can do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Is the committee agreed that we do that? Agreed. We will go back to No. 222B, the matter raised by Deputy Munster, which relates to Tipperary Education and Training Board. It gives a table for 2018, which some of us have gone through and marked. It is proposed that we note this and publish it. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is also flagged by Deputy Munster and we can leave it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough. No. 246B is from Mr. Andrew Deeks, president of University College Dublin, dated 3 December, 2020, providing information requested by the committee relating to non-compliant procurement in 2017 and 2018 amounting to €3.9 million. Mr. Deeks states that €2 million relates to the extension of contracts originally procured competitively and the HSE also...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy is happy enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Carthy's proposal is that we request a further breakdown of the non-compliant procurement. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 247B is from Mr. Maurice Buckley, chairman of the Office of Public Works, OPW, dated 4 December 2020, providing information requested by the committee at our meeting with the OPW on 11 November. We will note and publish this and a number of Deputies wish to speak...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: We can look for that. Deputy Carthy may also come in. We need to watch the time and there is approximately three or four minutes left.