John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have also received correspondence dated 6 February 2014 from Deputy McDonald requesting a meeting on access for the domestic SME and micro business sectors to public procurement contracts. This is to be noted. It is a matter for the public procurement service which is under the remit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We had a meeting with the Office of Public Works during which the issue of public procurement was raised. The OPW dealt with public procurement in the past but now there is a special unit dealing with it. At that meeting we asked for the details of the OPW's public procurement policy and outcomes. We can remind the OPW to give us that information and then we can bring before us the Department and the section responsible for public procurement and we can do that fairly soon. That will deal with the contents of Deputy McDonald's letter.