Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - 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 Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Minister of State. I am working on a Bill at the moment relating to that, so I will speak to the Minister of State about that. I have one last question. I want to be careful how I phrase this because I do not want to allude to what I am thinking of. If something goes out to tender and I am successful but I do a really bad job and cannot get it done, it has to go back out to tender. Another authority might look to hire me if I put myself forward again but it might not be aware that I failed really badly in what I was supposed to do and that as a result everything was delayed for a very long time. Is there a database so that another authority does not accidentally hire me when I could not do the job before?
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