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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: Was there a lack of communication on or awareness of the framework agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: If there was a framework agreement in place, it must have been agreed to. As such, there is no excuse for not being aware of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: The figure in the sample showed that only six framework agreements were actually in place. One might as well not have had a framework agreement at all. There was a sample of 100.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: Is this what has been followed up since the sample was reviewed? Is that what Mr. Swords is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: I am really confused. If there was a sample of 100 and it was found that 36% were in breach of the standard procurement process, no matter how much money one saved, one did not have an effective process in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: It was further found that only 6% of those engaged knew anything abjout the framework agreements. No matter what, that is not an effective process. To address the actual issues involved, how could it happen that such a breach of the normal procurement process could take place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: It is not communication but process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: There is a process in place for procurement. Either the procurement process is followed or it is not. Communication does not necessarily come into it. It might be communication on the framework agreement but not on following the proper process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: That is not what was found.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: I really-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: That is extraordinarily impressive and underlines the fact that there was an incredibly poor, or non-existent, system in place. This is what is reflected in the audit report and the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General. We will not know whether the package Mr. Swords has outlined is effective until the next report is presented. Can he give us an assurance that this is working on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: Is there the awareness and communication that he thought was missing about compliance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: What supervisory system and mechanisms are in place to ensure Mr. Swords will get regular feedback on it?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Joe Costello: I am sharing time with Deputy Eamonn Maloney. I welcome this Bill and I compliment the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, for bringing this legislation to the House. The Bill provides for universal GP service to be available without fees to everyone aged 70 years and over. This Bill is only one step in the process of providing free GP care to all our citizens....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2015)
Joe Costello: The total cost was €15.5 million and State money was €12.24 million, so in excess of €3 million of other money was put into the project. Where did that money come from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2015)
Joe Costello: With the International Fund for Ireland and the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, are there not conditions that the money must be used for some purpose? It is lying idle at the moment, incurring losses. Perhaps we can find out whether there are conditions attached to the funds from the International Fund for Ireland and the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2015)
Joe Costello: There is one other item. At the last meeting I proposed that we invite the Courts Service and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to come before the committee to discuss the Ian Bailey case on the basis that matters that were statute barred were only brought to the attention of the court on day 62 of a 64-day trial, which meant that most of the discussions that took place dealt with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: I welcome Mr. Griffin, Mr. Colgan and their colleagues before the committee today. Perhaps I can start with the last point raised by Deputy Nolan as to whether anything of this nature could happen again or whether this could have happened with the other 420 projects of that nature in INTERREG III. While the witnesses felt that this was an exceptional situation, how can they come to that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: We are talking about programmes that came under the Structural Funds from 2000 to 2006, that is, under the INTERREG III programme, of which there were 420, as well as under the PEACE funding, which was for more or less the same period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) Joe Costello: I do not wish to discuss what has happened since. I simply wish to find out how the Secretary General can come to a conclusion that Bytel was an exception.