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)
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There has been a lot of talk in the last hour and a half about Sparkassen and moving to that type of model. A report published in 2018 states that we do not need a Sparkassen-type model here, but it would be interesting to investigate it further, as well as role of the credit unions. However, I take the Minister's point.
I would like to return to the procurement issue. On the level of non-compliance with the competitive tendering process in 2019, it is my understanding from the response of the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, that no information is available yet for 2020. I add my voice to the call that the Minister of State, who has specific responsibility for procurement, seek that information. It is important that information is made available to the committee.
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