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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: That is correct. They had messages.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: There was an issue with one of the expenses that was an unvouched one. The President himself stated that once the election was over he would have no difficulty in publishing details of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: That is all progress.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: That allowance, by the way, cannot be audited by the audit team or anybody. Was that not the issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: The payment is but the spending is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: Perfect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: The kangaroos are over there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: On a related matter, there is the invitation to the city and county chief executives.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: Is that in the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report or is it separate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: We should go back to them again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: A joke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: I do not accept the responses that have come back, to be honest. They raise more questions about the procurement process. We are talking about contracts which are awarded without a competitive process. There may be times when that is the only possible outcome but it seems to happen an awful lot. To give a couple of examples, the Department states in the document that the contract was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: The information on Corrib north and Corrib south states that the contractors have the requisite expertise and knowledge to carry out the urgent assessments required, and the contractor has specialist knowledge and an in-depth understanding of this complex project. That does not necessarily mean that there were no other possibilities. It is not an excuse for not having a tendering process. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: That is my point. The Department is saying that it considers the supplier for the national mitigation plan to be unique. Who decides that this contractor is unique? Why is it not tested? Mr. McCarthy's point is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: Put it out for tender and see if it is the only one that comes forward. Exactly. However, that is not being done in a whole raft of areas. This is another problem in procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: I raised this previously. I know we have a very busy work schedule and a lot of work to do but the broader issue concerns procurement. This is another example of where there are problems. This time, it is citing a lack of expertise in the marketplace and saying that in its judgment, only specialised companies can do this work. In other areas, we have seen examples involving leaving it too...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
David Cullinane: It involves a slap on the wrist and a note at the end of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report saying that there may be issues regarding non-adherence to procurement rules. We then give the Accounting Officer a slap on the wrist, there is no punishment or sanction and it continues. I know there have been some improvements in the HSE because of our work. Notwithstanding that, it...