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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: To finish on the procurement process, predatory pricing was also raised earlier. I know it was agreed to hold a meeting on this matter. Members of the Committee of Public Accounts should be notified of this meeting, so that they can attend if they want to. Another question that has been raised with us concerns having a survey on the impact current policy has on this small group of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: I wish to raise a couple of issues about the Secretary General's correspondence received this morning and dated 4 March. It reads, "[T]he changes or developments that are necessary to enable the PAC to examine monies that went into Irish Water". We are currently doing so on the basis that the Department suggested.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: That work will be ongoing over a number of years, according to the plan that we sought when we dealt with the Department. It is something we can easily pursue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: The local government issue is a little more difficult. The Secretary General has not been much help to us on that in his letter. On the last occasion, he suggested there might be a role for us.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: What he set out in his letter is a role that already exists. I argue with him that the way local government is developing is nonsense for the following reason. Last month, there were two days of one week where two full pages of a newspaper was taken up through listing the losses and inefficiencies of spend by local government. I presume the journalists got their information from the audit...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Yes. Did the Secretary General attend the conference to listen to his Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: The Minister replied that he would answer "in a way that might surprise you" when asked a question about local government.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: He said, "The one thing I regret the most about the last four years was that decision" which was the decision to abolish town councils. The restoration of local democracy and town councils is essential, which is what he wants to happen. I agree with him. The Minister is of the view that there is something wrong with the way we manage local government, an issue which arises here on an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Watt has covered a great deal of ground this morning with his 19 pages. He is pushing forward with reforms in other areas, yet I do not see the same commitment. He has said it umpteen times before that he would like to see it happen. I would very much like to see it happen because it is a waste of public money to have two different audit teams in place in a country where it would be...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Earlier the Secretary General said that 180 quangos will be eliminated.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Why have them separate? I shall keep returning to this matter and working on it because merging must be done. In regard to procurement, and not about this morning, is the Secretary General happy with the way the HSE conducts its procurement process? Every week his Department's officials attend the weekly meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Every single week it is the same thing. Yesterday they released, by mistake or whatever knowing the games that are being played, a report which raises further questions about procurement. I do not expect the Secretary General to know the following. This morning the clerk to this committee received an analysis of a dossier which showed that contracts were being awarded without procurement...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: I listened carefully to him this morning about the way the Department spends and seeks value for money. Not enough care is given to the spending of taxpayers' money on the other side of this issue. My evidence for saying so is that the HSE day-in and day-out wastes money. Yesterday, we saw a scandalous waste of €2.3 million by the Irish State. A total of €4.3 million was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: We do not get the leaked reports. They press get them before we do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: In the particular cases of HSE procurement we were looking at this morning, the contracts went to individuals within companies in the private sector who at one time worked for the HSE. We have seen this time and again. It is as if nobody in the Departments learns the lesson. I have never seen anybody being sanctioned. Mr. Watt referred in a speech during the week that it is hard to get...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Does an official from the Department pick up the phone and ring the HSE to see what is wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: That is too late. Does Mr. Watt know what I mean? We know as from yesterday when the documents were leaked about the procurement in the HSE because it has been reported to us. It will be a while before a hearing and a report and recommendations are put in place. It is similar for the procurement process for the people who were before us this morning. By the time one learns about it, some...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. McCarthy does not know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: When one is in politics, one tends to see a lot of things differently.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement (5 Mar 2015) John McGuinness: No, I am not. We are doing well.