Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

May I just say something about procurement as well? There is a process which we see repeatedly that all public bodies are expected to go through, but there is another issue with procurement in terms of value for money. We saw this with the library services, for example. They were bundled together and in fact what happened was that we lost the local jobs and local availability and they were outsourced to other jurisdictions. We are an outlier in respect of the number of tenders that go to other jurisdictions when one looks at France, Germany and so on. There is a value for money issue with this as well. Is it within our remit to look at this? Is it within another Department's remit? There is a very valid issue there that has an equal standing in terms of value for money.