Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

4:30 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Schools do not necessarily want to have to contact the county town, or whatever, to get every little thing. Even within an ETB region, there can be clustering for procurement purposes and that gives suppliers in the locality an opportunity to service the schools that are close to them. It is certainly not anything as problematic in the ETB sector as it would be in the HSE. The HSE is in a class of its own.