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. David Moloney:

It certainly is possible to get the committee more information on that. The way we calculate savings is set out in a methodology agreed when the OGP was established, so that is what we do. We can certainly provide the committee with a breakdown of those savings and how they are calculated. They are in the major areas. When we think about the OGP and what it has done, we have gone from a situation where many thousands of people procured goods and services on behalf of the State at relatively low levels of expertise in terms of the people who were procuring goods and services and increasing that level of expertise and to some extent aggregating the procurement activities across-----

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