Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Again, that is interesting and I would like to get more information on it so perhaps the Minister can send that on to me. How will the independent peer review process itself, and the Government's interaction with it, be decided? As the Minister has stated it could involve people from different countries and so on, how will the make-up of the independent peer review be decided? Where will the reports from the review process be sent or made available? Will they be sent to the chief procurement officer and if so, will he have powers to intervene? What will the Minister's role be in all of this? If companies had a track record of abnormally low tender bids and cost overruns, would they be excluded from future tender processes? That may be a separate point.

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