Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Mr. David Moloney:

Under EU procurement frameworks, public bodies may exclude a contractor from a public procurement competition where the contractor has had a contract terminated and is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which is what the Chairman is describing, that renders its activity questionable. I am happy to initiate a conversation with the chairperson of the CCPC about the matters the Chairman raised. The Office of Government Procurement has a watching brief.