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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Taking money off would be normal. There would be numerous State contracts where money would be taken off because of some failings in a contract. From the information available at the minute or to his knowledge, Mr. O'Brien cannot say whether we have ever disqualified an abnormally low bid, and also that we have never actually used a clause to actually ban somebody from future public contracts because of past behaviour. In regard to those two areas, is there no evidence at hand to say we have used either of those in the past?
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