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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: So taking that on board means the OPW will change how it calculates savings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Does admitting that we need to change how the figures from 2011 are measured not then throw them into uncertainty?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: However, Ms McGrath also thinks it is reasonable to change the method of calculation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: That sounds to me that the way savings were calculated in 2011 may not stand up to actual scrutiny if we use the measures that will be used from now on. We will arrive at different figures.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is there not a problem with data collection as well?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What is being done to address that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I want to move on to the framework agreements in a moment. Is that data then pulled centrally into the OPW or the National Procurement Service regarding what exactly is being done under the different framework agreements or the different contracts that are entered into? Does Ms McGrath have a bird's eye view?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Where are we with that work?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: In regard to the timeline for that, will it be in the 2014 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that the new methodologies are investigated in practice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is every public body using a framework agreement for procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is Ms McGrath anticipating a lack of compliance by certain public bodies in respect of the framework agreements?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Ms McGrath indicated that some public bodies will not use the framework agreements, for whatever reason, and that they would have to be obliged to use the agreement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Will Ms McGrath name public bodies that are not complying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I understand from the figures that the framework agreements are very successful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: We want everyone to be using them where they should be doing so. We want it to be the standard across the public sector.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: If it is the case that some bodies are not complying, will that information be published?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Paragraph 14.16 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report refers to the calculation methodologies for procurement savings and states: "NPS provided details of estimated savings in 2011 of €46.5 million from a range of cost saving and cost avoidance measures." However, the data is not disaggregated between cost savings and cost avoidance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Why is it not disaggregated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Are there defined criteria for distinguishing between cost avoidance and cost savings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works (23 May 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of the level of detail in disaggregating the numbers, we will be able to achieve that under the new methodologies. We will be able to identify the amounts in cost savings and cost avoidance because they will not be lumped together into a single figure.