Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015

9:00 am

Ms Ann Campbell:

On supplier C, this is a student recruitment agency based in Beijing. It has recruited international students since the mid-2000s for DkIT. It would be very difficult logistically to find an agent in China through public procurement. One of the reasons for that is that business relationships in China are built very much on trust and getting to know people. We have been recruiting in China since 2002. When we went out to that market the first time, we were very unfamiliar with the market. We met a lot of agents that we gave temporary or short-term contracts to and they simply did not deliver students in the numbers that we need them to deliver on. We were very fortunate to meet this company around 2002-03 and we formed very good relations with it. It now recruits students for us. It is our-----

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