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:

We would not hold that information centrally. Ultimately, the contract is entered into between the contracting authority, namely the public body itself and a supplier. The public bodies themselves would hold that information. We do not hold information centrally on the final spend against a contract amount. That information would be held by the public bodies themselves. I will give the Deputy a sense of why that is the case. There are approximately 8,000 public service bodies out there who contract for small and large amounts. We do not have the capacity to hold that information; it would be far too voluminous for us to hold or gather.

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