Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

I am happy to run through it very quickly. I understand the question. The note is included in our accounts and we are being very transparent on this point, as we must be. The actual sum is €4.99 million. We have since undertaken competitive processes for 59% of that value. There are other cases on which we are seeking legal advice. Some of them were for services for which we could not really have tendered such as the emergency removal of horses on welfare grounds or emergency harbour works immediately following a storm. We also have cases in which there is only one supplier of test kits for laboratories. We are seeking the advice of the Office of Government Procurement in one other area, namely, the removal of hazardous clinical and biological waste. It may be the case that the office has a contract which fits that task.

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