Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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The then chair of the CCPC wrote to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2016 making the case for increased funding for a more sophisticated database to track the bidding in PPPs. What happened as a consequence of that? Have any measures been put in place to assist in that regard? The CCPC raised the matter again this year. My concern is that these two things happened within a month of each other. The chair raised the issue of the inability of the CCPC to examine these matters because of the absence of a sophisticated database and the technological means to look back and monitor. Has the Department engaged with the CCPC on that so far? Can any of the officials indicate whether there has been any level of engagement?