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- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: What is not allowed is the lack of competitive tendering.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: Was consultant B working for the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources? Mr. Griffin stated that he managed the digital switchover.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: But he was a retired civil servant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: I am asking about consultant B.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: No. Mr. Griffin told me a while ago that consultant A had been with the ESB-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: -----and that consultant B had managed the digital switchover.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: He was responsible for the IT sector within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but he had no specific expertise of coding for postcodes and so on. He came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and had no connection to Mr. Griffin's Department. Obviously that was a skill set that was available. If one went down to Sir John Rogerson's Quay, one would...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: I have some brief questions. Consultant C was a process auditor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: He had a skill set in procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: He was appointed without competitive tendering. Given that he had a background in procurement, should he not have said, as a person who was getting in excess of €30,000 that there might be a problem and that the Department might be better off advertising for his services? Consultant E was the legal firm. What was the legal firm and had it done work previously for the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: So consultant E was around previously in the scheme. It got the job without a tender and consultant C was an auditor with procurement experience and it got the job. Mr. Griffin said consultant B had IT expertise but that was not really the case because he came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so the expertise would not have been communications-specific and it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: That only happened because the Department got found out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: It did. What was done in September followed on from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: The Department got found out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System (28 Jan 2016) Patrick O'Donovan: I will finish now. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is washing its hands of it. It is every bit as bad as the way in which the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has dealt with the issue. It seems to me that there was a limited skill set that could not have been procured in a competitive environment. The situation is going on since 2005. From 2005...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jan 2016)
Patrick O'Donovan: 370. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to revert to this Deputy on a matter (details supplied) regarding a decision by Transport Infrastructure Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3537/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Remit (28 Jan 2016)
Patrick O'Donovan: 373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will revert to this Deputy on a matter (details supplied) regarding lighting at a road traffic junction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3650/16]
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Patrick O'Donovan: John, your time has come.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Patrick O'Donovan: Back to the use of bad language.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy overlooks the minor matter of the economic crisis.