Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

12:05 pm

Ms Clare McGrath:

In terms of centralised procurement, the Office of Government Procurement will have responsibility in that space. In regard to this issue, we would always have been concerned. We were doing centralised procurement of supplies and services for Departments and we were always looking to optimise the State's covenant to get maximum value.