Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes. We have gone through an open procurement process to establish panels of investigators. It is what is known as prequalification. It was done in a way that was absolutely consistent with public procurement requirements and on an open basis. We now have panels established from which we can rapidly draw in a manner that is totally consistent both with value for money and procurement requirements, while also taking account of the fact that sometimes these things must be done in an expeditious and speedy way and sometimes in a way in which one cannot publish a specific tender notice for a particular set of circumstances. It would not have been appropriate to do so in this case.

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