Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
9:30 am
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
There have been a number of Private Members' Bills in this area and I have engaged with the Opposition, with the Office of Government Procurement and representatives of small and medium enterprises, to point out some of the pitfalls in or unintended consequences of some of these pieces of legislation.
While we want to create a greater level of awareness, there is almost a reluctance within the SME sector to start tinkering around the edges for the sake of it because there is transparency and accessibility now that may not have been the case heretofore.
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