Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement

1:00 pm

Mr. Paul Quinn:

To give the Deputy a sense of what the Secretary General said, more than 1,500 public bodies make use of OGP arrangements on a day-to-day basis. I appreciate there may be a desire for additional information to be gathered and that is a reasonable expectation. However, we would have to invest in additional capability to make that happen.

Coming back to the question the Deputy asked regarding notices, in terms of the arrangements that people have made on an emergency basis, they are required to publish notices and to make those arrangements available to their internal audit bodies. There is no obligation under public law at the moment for any public body to publish a contract in its entirety.

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