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

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand the difference. Returning to the savings and the profile of that, I appreciate Deputy Colm Burke has asked for a greater breakdown of it but looking at it systemically and on the basis of international comparison, when an office of this kind is established, there is a certain amount of capture one can get in the first instance simply by streamlining the process. There is a proportion of savings one will get from that and then perhaps there is an additional proportion of savings to be had just by capturing a better value for money than had previously been the case. Is it the case that Mr. Quinn expects that amount of €570 million to remain approximately static? At what rate does he expect it to grow or has it captured the savings which are available to be captured at this point? Is that a reasonable question? Does Mr. Quinn know what I mean?

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