Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Dundalk Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2015
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
With any individual procurement, there are obviously circumstances around it. Many of the colleges are recruiting students internationally. The question that arises is how one knows if one has had a relationship for 15 years that one is getting the service at the best value. It is normally done by some form of competitive procurement, or at least even if one cannot do that, one can benchmark. We still need to see that there is evidence that this is a good value way of doing it, whether it be in terms of the cost per student recruited or whatever. It needs something to provide assurance.
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