Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source
We get a lot of complaints about procurement and the national procurement services. The general thrust is that the procurement system is slow in general and clumsy in that it is unable to act quickly. Is that true? Is it slow in comparison with similar agencies elsewhere? How do we compete or compare? Is there an intention to make any improvements or updates to address the criticisms that we have all heard from time to time?