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

Catherine Murphy: There is one issue.

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

Catherine Murphy: On Waterways Ireland, was there an issue in the previous year? Presumably the Comptroller and Auditor General keeps a record from one year to the next of issues that are outstanding and that he goes back to them. Presumably, because it does not appear now, the Comptroller and Auditor General is happy that it has been resolved.

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

Catherine Murphy: Did it value them?

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

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

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

Catherine Murphy: I am just not sure if Tusla or HIQA has a role in IPAS centre. Tusla may have a role but HIQA might not have. I just do not know. Obviously, we got that report last week. It was the first of its kind. I am sure there are loads of other reports that go along with all those other inspections on accommodation for asylum seekers, but who does the inspection? Do they have an involvement in...

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

Catherine Murphy: Grand.

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

Catherine Murphy: Agreed.

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

Catherine Murphy: Sorry, I have No. 2527 there for some reason. If the Cathaoirleach wants to proceed, I will have a look.

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

Catherine Murphy: I have a note of this as No. 2527. Is that the right one?

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

Catherine Murphy: I have a note with me for No. 2527.

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...