Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann

3:10 pm

Mr. John Barry:

Deputy Cowen makes a fair point. We contacted all of the service providers we have listed today to obtain their permission. We have no difficulty with sharing the information so long as it does not tend to impact on the commercial competitiveness we want in the marketplace vis-à-vis bidders. That is the important point. We want to drive benefits and cost savings. We want a very competitive supply base, with suppliers actively competing for projects and services we wish to buy or procure. In regard to the point of principle, however, we do not have a difficulty-----

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