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

1:50 pm

Mr. Paul Quinn:

We work very closely with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on everything we do. We have set up a high level group with it and between us we are driving several initiatives to try to ensure we dovetail with Action Plan for Jobs, and we have responsibility for several actions in that context. It is worth bearing in mind that we spend approximately €8 million a year on stationery. That is approximately 10% of the overall market. We are not by a long chalk the biggest factor in the market. We are very conscious of the implications of our actions and we take them into account in our market analysis. This year we made a substantial change in our approach to the market in that we did not offer the tender in one big lot, which we had done previously. We have listened and learned and looked at things through different lenses. We have broken the competition into four pieces this time.

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