Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management
1:40 pm
Mr. Paul Quinn:
Yes. InterTradeIreland has been funding some training programmes that are delivered directly for and with SMEs to enable them to get a bit of experience and knowledge in this area. There are challenges and there is no doubt about that, but by breaking into this, those enterprises that get together for consortia can win business elsewhere. It has been proved that by putting together consortia, not only to win business here, but also north of the Border, across into the United Kingdom and into Europe. When they do that and break into public procurement, it is a bit like an exam question. Once the winning formula is figured out, it is quite repeatable.
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