Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is that agreed? Agreed. The third petition is No. 24 of 2214, which concerns tendering for the social inclusion and community activation programme and comes from Ms Deirdre McCarthy and the Dublin Inner City Community Alliance. The petitioners believe the Government policy of tendering the new social inclusion and community activation programme threatens to undermine community development projects and will result in a deterioration of services for the most disadvantaged. They cite as the problem the enforcement of the EU procurement directive, 2004/18/EC, and advise it has been superseded by EU directive 2014/24/EU.