John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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While the members were contributing, I had an opportunity to look at the annual progress report on the public service reform plan for March 2015. It was in our post this morning. On page 6 of the report, it states the procurement reform programme is implementing a new centralised model for public procurement to generate significant savings in non-pay expenditure. It is stated that €63.5 million was saved on procurement in 2014. To arrive at that figure, the Department must have carried out some sort of analysis.