Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works
12:20 pm
Mr. Paul Quinn:
Perhaps I might intervene. This is the reason the Government has made the decision to drive centralisation. We need to increase the spend that is looked at centrally and pull in the common items from the various other Departments and agencies. The amount under negotiation centrally and frameworks will increase from approximately €220 million to more than €4 billion out of the total. It will, therefore, significantly centralise the management and procurement of common goods and services in the new office of government procurement.
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