Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
I will raise a couple of matters. On procurement and the massive difference involved, was there a procurement expert dealing with that in the Department? Deputy Ó Broin mentioned a figure of 39% or 40% - a massive difference. Many of us work with community organisations and have to do tendering for CLÁR and other schemes. Massive differences in price are flags. I cannot understand why this was not seen earlier when there was such an underbid regarding the delivery of the service. Was a procurement expert dealing with it? If there was, what role is that person in now?
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