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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: We cannot debate it because, unfortunately, Mr. Watt is the only one with the information and, for the third time in less than six months, today he has categorically said he will not provide the information to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: No, but Mr. Watt has possession of the report and the review, which he has not shared with the committee, so we are at a disadvantage. I noticed earlier he said-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: The question I posed was whether, in Mr. Watt's considered opinion, this project represents value for money. I do not know that we have anything on which to benchmark that in that we have no knowledge in this regard. We have an estimate that Mr. Watt says will not be the final estimate. He cannot give us the final estimate. I will not get into all that because he has already said that is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Are there any before the High Court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: They are not commercially sensitive if they are in the public realm.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Will Mr. Watt furnish to the committee the current cases and disputes that are before the courts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: I understand that, but I am still asking Mr. Watt to furnish them to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: I refer to commercial sensitivity. Mr. Watt knows we are under time pressure. I might as well tell him I have been in business for more than 30 years. When it comes to the commercial sensitivity of business contracts, it is between two entities involving their own moneys and business and economic strategy, so it is commercially sensitive. When it comes to the public purse, however, where...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: The reality is there is a bottom line when there are two businesses in competition. I understand the commercial sensitivity aspect of that. I do not understand it when it comes to spending taxpayers' money in the manner in which Mr. Watt expresses it because I think-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: I appreciate that they do. What I am saying is that I do not believe Mr. Watt is doing so by keeping the information to himself and not sharing it with the committee. As a matter of fact-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Mr. Watt would not be publishing it; he would be sharing it confidentially with the committee. He has refused to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: I resent Mr. Watt's aspersion that I, as a member of the committee, might reveal a confidential report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Mr. Watt has some neck to come in here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: -----and make that allegation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Sorry.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: I asked the Secretary General a question. He has refused to send the report to this committee-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: -----on the basis that we are not capable, as elected representatives, of keeping it confidential. Is that not what he is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: Who made the assumption?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: So if we give an undertaking that we will keep it confidential and within the committee, is the Secretary General saying he would furnish us with the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Verona Murphy: It is a binary question; "Yes" or "No"?