Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To pick up on the last point, the procurement difficulties have nothing to do with the financial problems we have. They relate to contracts being awarded. The procurement laws and rules are driving a lot of companies out of business. Many companies, in particular regionally-based companies which have employment potential, are not in a position to bid. I do not know if the Minister has advanced knowledge of the strategy but is there an area about opening up procurement rules to allow smaller companies, which have job creation potential and which employ people in the same way as other companies, to get a share of those contracts? Unless the procurement rules are changed there will be very little employment value in the new contracts coming down the line.

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