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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: In 2008 a lease was taken over. Do we know or have we access to who the leaseholder was?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: Yes. Who got the money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: I think we need to know who the leaseholder was, if it was anything to do with NAMA and if the State had any involvement. It is relevant, especially if we are losing €3.89 million and playing around with money ourselves – that is what I am getting at. I cannot understand it. Things were terminated on 30 September 2011. Am I right? It sounds like three years elapsed from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: At that point was the fit-out complete? The cost was heading towards €1.1 million. A two-year period is a long time to be fitting out any place. Had the fit-out started in March 2010? Was the money gone?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: It is a pity it was not a little more precarious.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: Due to the recession we saved a few pounds. Is that what Ms McPhillips is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: There was a delay. When did the Department start spending the €1.068 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: In January 2010, the Department started the fit-out. In March 2010, two months later, the Department got notification from Dublin City Council to the effect that the change of use had expired, but the Department kept going with the €1.068 million fit-out. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: The Department spent €1.068 million in 60 days. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: It is not physically possible unless the Department was wall-papering the premises in gold. That is what the committee needs, because something is wrong here. How could a fit-out cost this much money? How can the officials sit here and tell me that today? I am not blaming Ms McPhillips personally but logic and common sense must come into it. The Oireachtas is not spending that amount...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: Ms McPhillips referred to a long time ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: In the real world the company would not have recovered from this and would have gone under.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: It would not be a long time ago in the real world.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: That is the question I am asking. I am asking whether a contract was signed with a fit-out company for €1.1 million. Did the contractor walk in the door and simply put down a couple of floorboards? Did the State have to stump up the money because someone had signed the lease?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: It is altogether vague. I was working out the figures, although I have lost the piece of paper. Anyway, VAT was charged at 23%. I cannot understand how the VAT was paid upfront. I cannot understand how a claim could not be made back to the Revenue if VAT was paid in error on a lease deemed invalid. Was any attempt made to try to recoup that money from the Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: We could argue that. The whole conversation we have had around this question from this morning up to now is rather shocking, especially the things we have discovered and the things that we have had to drag out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: It is frustrating given there is such a vast sum of money at stake. Then, we hear the lease was in the name of the Minister and that there was a 60 day fit-out. None of it makes sense. The committee needs to know who the leaseholder was and who was acting on behalf of the leaseholder. I gather Ms McPhillips said this morning that the Chief State Solicitor carried out due diligence. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: Sorry, can Ms McPhillips expand on that? What practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: The practice of the Chief State Solicitor simply accepting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018) Kate O'Connell: The practice of the Chief State Solicitor accepting-----