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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It does not exist anywhere else in the world. We do not know how long it would take to build or how much it would cost. We do not know how useful it would be if we then have to aggregate the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The national claims information database is going to do what we need it to. To ensure that we remain in line with issues raised by the committee, we will give it further consideration. However, on the basis of the conversations we have had with State agencies and others, this could take considerable time, cost a considerable amount and not have the utility that we want it to have in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The database will become available in the middle of next year. I did not want to wait that long to get useful information into the public domain. That is why there will be quarterly reporting by my Department on metrics we are agreeing at the moment to try to ensure an initial air of transparency and to show people this is moving in the right direction. The work is being done now and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: We are trying to agree the metrics, including what information the database will contain, how it will be managed, who will make the inputs, and how it will be collated. The outputs will then be made public. I am not entirely clear if the Central Bank will conduct and publish a trend analysis or whether its spreadsheet will be made publicly accessible online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Is that a claims underwriting exchange?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Department of Justice and Equality has informed us that a working group on the implementation of the new office of the legal cost adjudicators, OLCA, has been established and is commencing its work. The design for the establishment of OLCA will take account of the dataset requirement for this deliverable, which is recommendation No. 22, actions 45 and 46.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The new office has been established and has commenced its work. The design of this office to take account of the dataset requirement which needs to be deliverable under this recommendation has to take place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I am told the office has commenced its work but I do not have any more detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have an update on each of the recommendations, which will be forwarded to the committee. The ambition was quarterly reporting but because I was appearing before the committee prior to the end of the first quarter, I gathered as much information as I could to date.

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government does not oppose the Bill. In fact, we have never opposed it. I am not sure to what rumour Deputy Marc MacSharry is referring. We have always sought to work constructively on this matter because we value social clauses and access for small and medium-sized businesses to public procurement. I commend Deputy Frank O'Rourke for bringing forward the Bill. I also commend the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Public procurement is governed by EU and national rules.  The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers best value for money.  It is a basic principle of public procurement that competitive tendering should be used other than in justifiably exceptional circumstances. Under Department of Finance...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important to understand that the reason we know about these instances of non-competitive processes taking place is because they are completed by the Accounting Officers themselves under this Circular 40/02. That is how we come to see exactly what has happened in this space. We need to recognise that while we should always hope to see competitive processes, EU directives allow for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: This is constantly being reviewed by the Office of Government Procurement, which is a new office. Its role in this area is to bring about the standards for compliance and the standards to be set for a competitive or non-competitive tender, and to liaise with the contracting authorities which might be a State agency or might be a local authority about best practice. I spoke earlier about the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: There will be volatility and wherever there is volatility, there are risks. One of the things that this Government has been stressing, as we approach the formal start of the Article 50 negotiations, is the importance of putting in place transitional arrangements to act as a safety net for the market. This will ensure that as we go through the negotiation process, dealing with the terms of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes, I am disappointed with that decision, but I must be careful about what I say about individual companies. AIG announced a decision and informed me of it early yesterday after making it. I have had a number of meetings with AIG and the people making the decision, as has the Minister, Deputy Noonan. I have not yet had a chance to speak with him about the decision and what we might do...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I have spoken a great deal about Cork. I get in trouble for emphasising it so much, but that might not happen in this room this morning.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Most people do not understand that, when we discuss international financial services and Ireland's offering, one third of those jobs are located outside Dublin. I have visited Cork a number of times. Most recently, I was there to open a new company that was moving into front-office functions. Connecting Cork and the chambers have been doing a fantastic job. They have visited London with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: We will come back to that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The point I constantly make is to consider all of Ireland and its overall offering. IFS2020 has a target of increasing our offering by 30%, or approximately 10,000 jobs, over a five-year period. According to last year's figures, the current figure is just under 40,000. As we increase the number further, I am committed to maintaining at least one third of the overall number outside of...