Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is happy enough. No. 246B is from Mr. Andrew Deeks, president of University College Dublin, dated 3 December, 2020, providing information requested by the committee relating to non-compliant procurement in 2017 and 2018 amounting to €3.9 million. Mr. Deeks states that €2 million relates to the extension of contracts originally procured competitively and the HSE also states that this is the reason for approximately a quarter of its non-compliant procurement in 2019. We will note this and publish it. Deputy Carthy has further proposed that we request a breakdown of the non-compliant procurement to the value €3.9 million. Our letter specifically requested the number of contracts that were non-compliant with procurement guidelines, the associated expenditure and the reasons for the non-compliance, so it is important that we follow up on this.