Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I will try to get that information for Mr. Griffin. I had other questions for him, but I will leave those. If Mr. Griffin gives us the information he has been asked for, we can then bring in the IFI to deal with the other outstanding questions more directly.
As regards contracts that have been entered into and the lack of a suitable tendering process, how does that happen within the Department? It is stated that there were six contracts at a value of €683,672. Two contracts were extended due to a lack of suitable people to tender for them.