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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They obviously did not put Deputy MacSharry to the back.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Fáilte romhaibh agus go raibh míle maith agaibh as an tuarascáil bhliantúil as Gaeilge. Tá éacht déanta agaibh. I will come back to those points but I am going to start with the accounts. The Comptroller and Auditor General has given a clear opinion and that the accounts are properly presented etc. He did raise one issue in respect of procurement....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. McCarthy for the clarification. It is on page 3.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What is the Cabinet system?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What is the value of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: For the contract?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The total figure for the four contracts is €643,939. Of that, €403,000-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is without tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Am I wrong that it is without tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Okay, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The company that got it is rolling it over.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What does that mean? Can Mr. Fraser clarify that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Can we go back to the main contract.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Going back to the major contract that was rolled over, how does the Department know it cannot get anybody else?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The reason I am putting this in context is that it comes up every week with every organisation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is an interesting concept - proprietary - which I would like to come back to some time. The HSE uses a particular type of software and there seems to be very little competition. One group always seems to get the contract. In this so-called free market, we are seeing reduced competition all of the time. That is Mr. Fraser's answer for today, that the Department can get nobody else-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In this case-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Department did tender originally and contracted a company but that company owns the software.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, the point I am making is that I have serious concerns about this. I am no expert and this is not my area at all but I am concerned on the basis of representations that have been made to me. The Comptroller and Auditor General has given a very good outline of the issue. I will leave it for now and move on. I want to go back to the issue of claims. I had intended to ask why...