John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will turn to what seems to be our pet subject these days to a certain extent, namely, non-compliance with procurement rules. I understand 22 contracts to the value of €2 million were not subject to competitive procurement within the Department. Twenty-two contracts is quite a high number. We dealt with the Health Service Executive, HSE, recently, which seems to be a really bad offender when it comes to sidelining the procurement process, but why were those contracts not awarded within the proper guidelines?