Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
5:50 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source
There will be significant additional resources allocated to ensure it proceeds. With regard to procurement, tenders will make sense for the specific product. It is a national rather than a local market, so we will not have local procurement in that sense. One will not travel from Donegal to Wexford, for example, in order to provide a cleaning service in the offices of the Environmental Protection Agency. There will be a practical local component. It would be useful at a later date for the director of the procurement office to go through this in some detail, and the committee could even bring in representatives of the small and medium enterprise sector to engage. It may be something for the work programme.
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