Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I want to deal with management issues as well but to finish on procurement because this has come up in other areas. There seems to be a pattern where Dr. Scally says that: "There has been over-reliance on contract extensions."
We have had that before and one of the reasons we were given is that not enough time was given over to looking at putting out new tenders and it might have been easier to roll over contracts. He goes on to say that:"No documentation has been made available to the Scoping Inquiry which suggests that the NSS has attempted to test the wider supply market (outside of the incumbent suppliers) since 2012."
What Dr. Scally is saying is that the documentation was not there or was not provided to him to really satisfy him as to why these contracts were extended or rolled over. Is that Mr. McCallion 's understanding of what he is saying?
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