Dáil debates
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Other Questions
Public Procurement Contracts
4:00 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source
-----that we want to win contracts. As I have stated, we have facilitated all SMEs in the State in fully involving themselves in the tendering process. We have "meet the buyers" processes and there are seminars with potential employers. There is a website and we give training on tendering. That is absolutely new and it never before happened with State procurement until the Office of Government Procurement was established. Virtually everybody in the House, except the Deputy asking the current question, has welcomed the OGP. She probably wants to go back to the position where we did not know who was buying what or at what cost.
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