Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Some of things on this jumped out to me as things that should be foreseen. For example, I can understand things such as towing or translations. It is difficult to judge what the requirement would be with translations. It may well be there could be issues in relation to various languages. However, there are things here such as cleaning, clothing and hiring barriers. Some of that should be foreseen, for events particularly. There is media services as well, which is another one that jumped out at me. I would have thought that was almost a staple that you do. This comes down to the issue of value for money. Even in terms of the translations, it appears to be the same company that pops up with a range of different Departments. Is there competition in this regard? There is not a great variety in terms of the companies Departments are using. We are then looking at whether it is good value for money. We should write to them and ask about things such as cleaning, clothing and media services in particular. Why would they be operational issues? Why would they be falling into non-procurement? Some of it I can completely accept but it would be worthwhile if we drew attention to some of them.