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- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: -----of the biggest budget in the State. Surely you have some expertise to give a professional view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes and you were dragged kicking and screaming in for a few hours.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is the reality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Just like the "mob" comment outside the room.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: They are all big boys. I am paid well enough to take a bit of grief as is the Secretary General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Will Mr. Watt answer those questions first?
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I know but the Chairman could get the answers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Earlier the Secretary General referred to inflation. This is an estimate. The witness spoke of the two-stage process and that there was an understanding of an estimate. We established that it is not going to be €1.7 million and that it will be more because of the inflation tied in. Where does Project Ireland 2040 stand? Mr. Watts touched on this earlier but if the same 4% above...
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If there is a rise like that then all contracts-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: So it is a relative unknown, albeit we are picking a figure of €116 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Our best guess is that it is going to be €116 billion, but this does not really take account of inflation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Hopefully.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have only a short amount of time and I have some very quick questions. With regard to the business case on the children's hospital, did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform ask, insist or request that the development board at the hospital - or delivery board as Mr. O'Brien referred to it - do a cost-benefit analysis on the business case price?
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: They did do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: My next question is about process - it is not about individual Ministers or Governments - and it is just to get an understanding. Mr. Watts has served through various Administrations. Projects have gone well and badly for all parties and none over the years. As a matter of practice is there a process by which on a weekly, monthly or quarterly business the Minister of the day - I do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: For the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is that a "No"?
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It would be very useful for the Minister of the day to have something to show where the projects are at. It is an aside. It is not about the current Minister or politics.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: He cut me off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I promise this is the final one because it follows on. I loved the last statement in the Secretary General's opening contribution which Deputy O'Connell captured very well. He feels that the performance relationship in terms of actual delivery rather than bonuses is the way to go. What tangible sanctions is he recommending by way of reform for State personnel who may be asleep at the wheel...