Results 321-340 of 1,028,097 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Paul Daly OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of the 122, how many have been corrected?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: What about the remaining ones?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: What services did they relate to?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How did they relate to procurement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: So there was non-compliant procurement as a result of not being able to publish the specific layouts for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How does Mr. Conlon intend to address that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: One gets judged more harshly for non-compliant procurement regarding what are basic capital and maintenance issues, rather than other issues. I want to move on to other areas but I wish to flag that this is an area that the committee will likely return to.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Let me raise the issue of the payment of €299,559 to a subcontractor. In 2020, the OPW paid that amount, which was not due under the terms of the contract with the main contractor, directly to the subcontractor. It has been noted that the transaction was not recorded as a debt in the accounts. Could Mr. Conlon explain that to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Can Mr. Conlon state the site in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Regarding that site, a payment was made directly to the subcontractor. Can Mr. Conlon explain why that happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I can understand how somebody responsible for a project, fearing it might not be completed and that there could be a risk of losing the subcontractor, would put in place a sticking-plaster solution to ensure completion. In the private sector, those kinds of arrangements are made, but the difficulty is that the OPW, in going beyond the tender, exposed the State to a charge of €300,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The money was returned but not listed as a debt in the accounts. Did the OPW expect to get the money back?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Surely if it expected to get it back, it would have been recorded in the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Has Mr. Conlon examined whether any conflicts of interest arose regarding this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: My question was whether, as a result of all the reviews, there was any suggestion or allegation of a conflict of interest between the person making the decision and the subcontractor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: From a project management perspective, I can absolutely understand what was done, but it is just not the way to manage public money. Public money must not be exposed in that way. There is a suggestion that the payment would effectively be state aid in that it was a loan to the subcontractor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: In that space, the OPW leaves itself open to every subcontractor saying the main contractor will not pay it and seeking early payment. It effectively rips up the contract schedule.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How many people would have been required to sign off on the payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: He or she would have had the power to approve up to the amount in question, but surely the making of a payment outside the contract would not be approved. There should not have been approval for that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That is a very clear answer. Let me come back to the issue of the tax settlement with Revenue. The OPW made an unprompted voluntary disclosure to Revenue of €550,000 relating to four years of expenses claims. Interest of €110,000 and a penalty of €16,000 were paid to the Revenue Commissioners in 2022. I accept that the penalty is being received by the State from the...