Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
As a businessman myself, a farmer, I know that the best way to contract out a job is to put two or three bidders up there and get the best value for money for me, by putting it out to the market.
The Department has one consortium and it has given me assurances that it is considering it, but there is only one bidder, knowing there are no others against it, that the Department has no alternative, and it can get on with it and cream it if it wants to. I am not saying that will happen but these things can happen.
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