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- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Nugent understand that I hope he has not created a bit of a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: My two last questions concern the Office of Government Procurement. What guidelines on prepayments and deposits of prepayments are in the documents that the office issues to all public sector bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Stop. Mr. Deane is losing me there, and I am the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Surely procurement includes how one pays. Does the standard procurement contract allow for prepayments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can it or can it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: However, we have just heard Mr. Culhane say hundreds of thousands of euro in prepayments can be possible. We heard that DIT cost the taxpayer €700,000 with its library prepayment for the next 12 months, in advance of the academic season. Now the Office of Government Procurement is before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Has the office picked up on this? It needs to address this as part of its guidelines on prepayment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the link between them-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Wow.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Right. I am still not satisfied.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: From a procurement point of view, aside from the contracting, if one is helping people to design their tender process surely a facility for prepayment or discounts in lieu of early payment or prepayments could be part of it. I do not understand what the office does if it does not deal with these types of issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does the Office of Government Procurement have any role in issuing guidelines on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: On this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Deane believe the office should?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is that in the Government Procurement Office's framework?
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Let me outline my worry as Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. In the past year, we have had an example of a State body costing the taxpayer €700,000 because of a prepayment and the relevant company going bust. Today, the Comptroller and Auditor General tells us that, at the end of the financial year, €11 million in prepayments to the private sector were in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: To return to Government procurement, I have listened to all the comments on procurement and the breaking of contracts but there is still a big risk that does not seem to have been registered in the Office of Government Procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I refer to guidelines on the risk. Mr. Deane said there might be a benefit, which I understand, but there is an associated risk. I see nothing coming from the office in regard to how it could be managed. I ask Mr. Deane to send us something and talk to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We will write to the Department and the Office of Government Procurement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is too vague for me. As Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, I believe the situation is not adequately in hand. I am looking to Mr. Deane and to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to address this. There has been a loss to the taxpayer. Not only was there a loss but Mr. Deane is actually telling us there is no great system even to learn from that loss. The lessons...