From top: Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Seán Fleming; clerk of the Dáil Peter Finnegan, a Komori offset printer; live link to today’s Public Accounts Committee meeting
This morning.
The Public Accounts Committee asked the clerk of the Dáil Peter Finnegan and representatives of the OPW to appear before the committee at 3pm to answer questions about the controversial Oireachtas printer.
It follows reports last night that the total cost of the printer has reached around €1.8million, €200,000 more than the €1.6million outlined by the Oireachtas two weeks ago.
It also follows the publication of Mr Finnegan’s report on the purchase of the Komori printing press, which is located in the basement of Kildare House.
Previously: “I Was Advised That The Estimated Cost Was €230,000”
Meanwhile…
The Department of Social Protection detected 23 cases of fraud 2018 and 16 this year to date, this amounted to €943,000 in savings the Public Accounts Committee has been told in correspondence #iestaff
— Elaine Loughlin (@Elaine_Loughlin) December 12, 2019
PAC chair Sean Fleming says it’s “not acceptable” that 10,000 children who are entitled to school meals are not getting food because schools have refused an offer to join the programme. He has asked the Dept of Education to follow up with schools and report back #iestaff
— Elaine Loughlin (@Elaine_Loughlin) December 12, 2019
The meeting can be watched in the link above or here.
D’ye know
I’m beginning to think that Printer should be Person of the Year
Building works upon building works, PAC hearings, OPW architects and engineers, highly sophisticated but still offering to dry a lad’s pants, own parking space for the fork-lift, specially trained handlers, minders and stylists
what does the Broadsheet jury think?
One for the short list?
By now you’ll have heard the sad story
of a move which was not dilatory.
They-should have waited and pondered,
instead money they squandered
on the printer they bought from Komori
Hmmm, someone made a god awful mess of the printer thing and should be brought to book, however, including the tweet about welfare fraud implies the two are connected. We should just cease investigating any fraud by Joe public because of the printer scandal, is that it? At least it makes a change from ‘the bankers are the real ones who should be investigated.’
You know I bought a new fridge there in the last few weeks
and the model specs came with a Space Programme worth of dimensions from all sorts of angles
it even had clearance dims
even for the lads hauling it into place
just saying