Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to answer the question both in respect of individual instances and the general principle. Should companies that get public contracts, that are then found to be in breach of the law and of fire safety standards and that fail to comply with the tax code be banned for ever from being awarded public contracts? I will go into a little more detail. Before the summer recess, I raised the issue of the refurbishment of Dolphin House and the failure in that instance to comply with the tax code. I have just left the meeting of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills at which Western Building Systems-----

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