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

I am asking whether the Minister of State will consider bringing in more serious penalties and excluding contractors who do work paid for out of the public purse through public procurement or contracts where those companies are found to have been substandard, negligent in their work or engaged in fraudulent behaviour. I am thinking of issues like schools that were built in a substandard fashion without proper fire safety measures, bogus self-employment on public contracts and, we may discover, the outsourcing of cervical smears.

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