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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Yes. We will ask that the appropriate officials in the HSE who dealt with this case and those at the level responsible for making the apology come before us, to make everything clear, with whoever represents the HSE and Mr. Tony O'Brien.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: He is being invited. He is the Accounting Officer.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: Under any other business, while we are waiting for the witnesses, we asked for a report from both the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on the funding of the Central Access Scheme, CAS, for Kilkenny, which is in my constituency. I suggest that we ask them for a review of that in light of the application being made...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: We asked for that last week as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)

John McGuinness: We have not had a response to that yet so we have asked again.

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)

John McGuinness: I welcome the witnesses. Before we begin, I ask members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to please turn off their mobile phones, because they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease...

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)

John McGuinness: I welcome Ms Austin from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I ask Mr. McCarthy to make his opening statement.

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)

John McGuinness: Thank you, Mr. Griffin. May we publish your statement, please?

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)

John McGuinness: You mentioned this morning's The Irish Timesin your opening statement. I see that Martin Dunne, the director of the NAS, is quoted as saying that the process involved updating emergency service systems to adapt to Eircode, and so on. In 2014, Mr. Dunne wrote: "At no stage has the NAS or myself outlined that this system is the answer to all our needs in relation to rapid access to patients...

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)

John McGuinness: I accept that, but I understood from the comment made in correspondence in 2014 that that was not the case. The NAS seems to be coming to this after the event, and it would seem, from what Mr. Dunne said in 2014, that they were not included in the process of developing Eircode. That is the point I am making. Is the NAS bringing its systems up to speed to be compatible with Eircode and, if...

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)

John McGuinness: Yes. We have to add all of these costs - extra add-on costs - to the cost of providing Eircode in order to establish what the real expenditure of taxpayers' money is. Perhaps you could come back to that later on.

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)

John McGuinness: You do not know that.

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)

John McGuinness: What is minimal?

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)

John McGuinness: But then you do not know, to be fair.

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)

John McGuinness: We will talk later about it. I call Deputy O'Donovan.

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)

John McGuinness: Deputy O'Donovan should proceed.

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)

John McGuinness: How were the individuals selected?

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)

John McGuinness: Just call them consultants A, B, C or whichever they are.

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)

John McGuinness: What attracted the Department to each one of them? What outstanding skills had they to cause the Department to-----