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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Towards the end of 2018. Let us say, by the time the contract is signed, the Secretary General has said that €6 million was spent up to 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Another €7 million will be spent in 2017. How much will be spent by the time the contract is signed, sealed and delivered?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I understand that. I just asked the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: For what?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Suppose things had moved as fast as the Department had anticipated and it was awarding the contract this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Does the Secretary General mean that the arrangement with these people was not in place to sign the contract, had it been done on time, this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I do not understand this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Is the Secretary General telling me that we spent €6 million in 2016, €7 million in 2017 but by the time we get to 2018 it is possible none of these people, who will have received €13 million to advise on this contract, will be around and the Department will be starting with a new contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Now the Secretary General will understand my original question inquiring who were the commercial advisers. The Department has not received very good advice if €13 million will be spent on drawing up a 1,500 page contract for national broadband. Plus, the people who will have received the €13 million may not even be in situnext year and the Department will have to re-tender....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Who owns the work that has been done to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Is it the Department's work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: It is not their work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: In other words, the Department will be able to hand over the contract it has at that point to whoever comes in to take it forward.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Can the Secretary General not see why we are concerned? It could be four different companies picking up the work of some other companies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: How come the original arrangement was so shortsighted? It did not take us to the end of the process. It just took us for X number of months.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: X refers to 24 months or X number of months.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Was part of their contract not to advise and assist in completing the contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: No. When they were getting the contract was that the intention? Was it intended that the people who did all of the scoping and advised on the tender would assist the Department in signing off the contract with whoever the successful bidder would have been?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: None of us buys that. The Irish Water people said the same to us. That is guff and let us be straight about that now. I know it was said in this House. Irish Water told us its project was the biggest one since rural electrification and every other day we hear statements. I do not mean to be rude but there is more to it than all that.