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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Some of this is predictable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously, we are seeing a deficiency in internal audit. We can see where there was a lack of thought or planning in some of the amalgamations and things like that. We are seeing where computer systems might not be compatible and that kind of stuff. We are seeing what those organisations are presenting, even in terms of procurement. The fact that this is being done retrospectively should...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. There must be a regulatory impact assessment that looks at these kinds of things. Some lessons must be learned from these amalgamations. They are not the only amalgamations that will ever happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There is no point in saying we are getting there with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is a question of how we stop this from happening again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have made a national pastime out of creating problems and then going back and trying to solve those problems.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Rather than deciding to change the culture and do things differently-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----we should plan, predict and avoid the problems. I do not see where that actually fits in. That is a process issue for us as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Plan to fail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What does the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There would be value in doing it beforehand.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: In case I forget, the officials might give us a note on the remaining bidder for the national broadband plan, detailing from the date the tender process opened what the make-up of that bidder was. It has changed. I would like to know what it was, what it is now, what the various changes were in the interim and the dates of those, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: If we could have that, it would be helpful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: I note that Granahan McCourt is the lead but there are subcontractors included as well. Will they be included? Granahan McCourt may or may not have the finances, and there are issues about that, but the technical ability to deliver is the other side of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: I know I will be.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to see who has a beneficial interest in this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the MANs. Ireland has one of the most expensive State-owned broadband networks in Europe. The Minister issued a press statement after the Analysys Mason report was produced. The headline issue identified in that statement was that there was a 50% reduction to €2.60 per metre. We saw the response from BT to some of the points in the Analysys Mason report. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: They were comparing it with what they had been quoted prior to the announcement. I will suggest that they make a complaint because that seems to be needed to trigger someone to take a look at it. There is a real issue with cost here because we are out of line.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: I have read the report and do not need Mr. Griffin to read it back to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Catherine Murphy: The key issue is what the end user is getting-----