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Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
Yes.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
I will leave it at that, convener.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
Did they do so?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
There was no real advice given in this particular case as to whether any sort of direction was required. Please correct me if I am wrong but, from what you are saying, it was just a routine process with a sign-off from the minister. Is that correct?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
Not within your—
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
You received the information on that from several different sources. It must have been pulled together in some place. Is there a document that covers that?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
I will probably cover a little bit of ground that others have covered but from a different angle. In your submission of 24 June 2022, you state:
“I do not think there was ever any suggestion of CMAL requesting a written Ministerial authority”.
Would it have been you who would have advised CMAL if a written ministerial authority was required?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
So, as far as you are concerned, the decision on the contract award was down to CMAL—at the end of the day, it was CMAL’s decision.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
In your personal case, did you have any communication directly with Mr McColl during the procurement process?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 8 September 2022
Colin Beattie
It is well known that there were disputes between CMAL and FMEL, which seem to have been fairly extreme. What discussions did you have with other ministers, and what actions did you explore, to try to resolve the dispute and bring the companies together? Mediation did not go anywhere.
