Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Quinn:

The programme was there to ensure we brought the tenders to the marketplace. That is how value for money is achieved in public procurement. It materialises where opportunities are brought to the marketplace and competitions are formed. A great deal of work was put in place to ensure projects and programmes were brought in such a way as to achieve value for money. We were making sure the tenders were structured in the right kind of way. We were making sure they were structured in a way that was open to small and medium-sized businesses, where possible. There was considerable discussion, engagement and decision-making to ensure those decisions were being made and that the projects were structured in a way to deliver value for money. What I do not have in front of me, although we can provide them separately-----