Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011

12:30 pm

Mr. Steven Burgess:

Leading on from that, the stimulus package is meant to be about growth and jobs. Not only will we incentivise them or seek that they participate directly with the SME sector, we will also seek to incentivise them to engage those who no longer work in the industry. Hopefully, this will encourage apprenticeship and engagement of the long-term unemployed under the contracts. We are looking at mechanisms in that respect. Public procurement is a difficult area but we are certainly looking to find mechanisms to do that.