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

We are giving the opportunity to both organisations to give their views about procurement, why it is not working for them and how they have been adversely affected by the procurement process. Having dealt with that, as an example, we have other examples from previous hearings that we will be able to put to the Department's officials and to the section that is responsible for procurement. We will be reasonably well informed of what the Small Firms Association and the federation consider to be wrong with the procurement process and we can address that with the Department. If there are recommendations to be made following that, we will be able to put them forward in our report on procurement.