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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) states that many funded nursing vacancies arising from staff retiring, leaving or going on maternity leave are remaining unfilled due to the recruitment freeze and that this happening when there is unprecedented demand on our health services, meaning that various departments and community services are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I will be happy to get the Minister's answer on this question so I will skip my 30-second introduction.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I want to make sure I am addressing the correct question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I am taking his question as well, just to make things more complicated.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The number of nurses in our health service has been increasing dramatically in the lifetime of this Government. Since January 2020, right across the health service we have increased the number by almost 29,000 whole-time equivalents. It really has been a huge increase. Deputy Murphy asked specifically about nurses and midwifery. In the lifetime of this Government, the nursing and...
- 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: Good morning to our witnesses. Let us deal with the issue of non-compliant procurement first. It is the one that always comes up at the beginning of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report. There were 122 instances. Mr. Conlon indicated that they relate to capital works in the property portfolio. Could he explain that a little further?
- 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: If officials from another Department were with me and talking about any of those things, I would say they might be explainable on the basis of there being other areas of expertise within the Department. The OPW’s core business is all these things. Surely there is a framework tender that allows the OPW to implement solutions. I am thinking about local authorities, which have a...
- 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 instances, has Mr. Conlon identified any that should have been addressed within some sort of framework tender?
- 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.