Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank all our guests for coming before the committee. I will start by asking Mr. McHugh some questions. He stated that he would like to see legislation enacted to enable the screening of bids to happen. I can appreciate that. However, we enacted legislation here not that long ago, in 2022, and that has been in force since September of this year. What is Mr. McHugh's assessment of the powers the Oireachtas has given the CCPC under that amending Act of 2022? Maybe it is too soon to ask this but have those powers been used by the CCPC yet to try to combat bid-rigging?
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