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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have not, no.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Grand, thanks.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am okay with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The same response is repeated through the report. It is copy and paste - "it is not possible to rectify this non-compliant procurement retrospectively". Perhaps we could ask the OPW if the old process was tested before it was adopted. Is the new procurement process actually in place at this stage or is the OPW still relying on the old process and it is in transition? I am not entirely...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have one general point, which may be something that is raised with the Comptroller and Auditor General at audit time and relates to procurement. Talking to people in public bodies, very often, they will not get multi-annual funding. They will get notification of funding in March and have to have it spent by October. They are handing back money because they are put in an impossible...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is probably the best way to do it because they are practical examples.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Where is the central procurement officer?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If it is a question that, for example, some of the ETBs are relatively short-staffed, presumably with remote working now it would be possible to have a collaborative approach in that they could employ one person between two or more of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Economies of scale are another thing. I am sure they are conscious of that too.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to return to No. 2527, which is one that the Chair called out. It is a relatively small one at €48,000. It is about four or five from the bottom and it states: A competitive tender process through eTenders - [you need a magnifying glass to read this] - was carried out in ... 2023 to fill this role. This competition was unsuccessful and did not result in us entering into a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are looking at consequences.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to comment on No. 2535.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When we see non-competitive procurement, it tends to be for one year. However, by virtue of the fact this is put in the “emergency” category, it is not following the usual processes that are very public processes where there is a tender. This is kind of doubly non-compliant because it would be following the normal type of procurement where there would be multiple tenders for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do not doubt that Department had, and has, an enormous amount to do. Everything has been located in one Department. Even if there has been an increase in staff numbers, they have had to be moved around to make sure that payments were made, where there is a regime around payments being made on time and so on. This should be cross-Government. That is where we will start to see pressure...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Can we complete the last question?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have been sitting here since-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I agree with many of the points that have been made with regard to the Department. Indeed, I heard the criticism from our Fianna Fáil colleague here. This is a whole-of-government issue but the problem is that there is not a whole-of-government response. I want to concentrate exclusively on the international protection provision. Mr. McCarthy says he cannot tell us the amounts for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There is more to it than that. Bunk beds were said to be unsuitable but the place is full of bunk beds. The Department should have known that when it contracted the service. Did somebody even go and check?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Has Mr. McCarthy read his own report?