Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
I will consider what Deputy Cullinane said and we will do the best we can. I referenced the two current providers in the market as an example of why we could not do it. In response to Deputy Catherine Murphy, I clarified that nine companies tendered and under procurement rules the companies which were successful bid in a closed tender. They do not want other people to figure out their prices because they are competing against them in other markets. We may or may not run a tender again in 2021 when the contract expires. Do we want the other seven tenderers to know what the current company is paying? They are all the issues we have to consider.
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