Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
With a further outsider being appointed, it will have two. The Department certainly would not be interested in having it the other way round, with nine outsiders and two insiders. The time has come for radical reform in this area. We have seen this particular purchase go south on the taxpayer. We see that this particular board is completely controlled by what I would call insiders. We have seen complaints at this committee far too often from the SME sector, which complains that businesses cannot deal with Government procurement. It is affecting local businesses all over the country. We have heard this from them over the past five years.
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