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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: 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.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Like in America.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: How are things in America?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that the way it is up North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electronic Communications Markets: Commission for Communications Regulation (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: The questions I asked were never answered. I asked whether advance notice of drive tests was given to the operators. Are they told when these drive tests take place? In fairness, ComReg's maps are clear. It is carrying out drive tests on roads where people do not live. No one lives on the M6, M7, M8, M9 and M1, and no one lives within 300 m either side of the motorway network. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electronic Communications Markets: Commission for Communications Regulation (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: This is the most important point though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electronic Communications Markets: Commission for Communications Regulation (27 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am looking online at the route map that ComReg used for the assessment of mobile network operators' compliance with licence obligations in 2015. Huge swathes of the country were not tested at all. Only a tiny fraction of my constituency was assessed because it has only one national primary road and one national secondary road. Given the demographics of my county, I find it remarkable...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is amnesia.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (26 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of the entitlement of a person (details supplied) under the illness benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3130/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (26 Jan 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance if a paper application for tax relief on health expenses for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be processed following correspondence dated 10 December 2015; if the correct name will be used; when the relief will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2902/16]