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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I wish to return to the OGP. What are Ms Stewart's views on the quality of recording and retention of procurement and public contract data across public bodies and agencies, especially the HSE, for the establishment of analysis of public procurement data and for it to be effective?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Is Ms Stewart concerned about the retention of procurement and public contract data across public bodies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Information I have received from the Department of public expenditure recently claimed that, on 6 October, a briefing to be provided to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, stated that the estimated compliance rate with central procurement solutions is at best 50% to 60% with respect to the health Vote. That is a shocking statement from a senior official to the Minister for public expenditure....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is good that the OGP is working with the HSE and all the rest. Does Ms Stewart stand over the claim that the estimated compliance rate with central procurement solutions is at best 50% to 60% with respect to the health Vote? The health Vote is massive. Is that claim accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is fair enough that Ms Stewart may not have the exact information. However, is it in that ballpark or is it in the low teens? The Department is saying the health Vote's compliance rate with central procurement solutions is at best 50% to 60%, which means that nearly half of all procurement is non-compliant. Is it in that ballpark?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The statement from the senior official to the Minister referred to the compliance rate with central procurement solutions. Therefore, it is not all solutions but central procurement in which the Office of Government Procurement has a direct involvement. Is it in that ballpark? Is the health vote non-compliant by approximately 40% to 50%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: If it is there or thereabouts, what has the Office of Government Procurement being doing in recent years to make sure that nearly half the health Vote central procurement is compliant with the processes that have been agreed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: To assist the committee, which oversees the OGP, can the office provide the committee with the top 20 procurement contracts or solutions by value that were not compliant so far this year? The office can anonymise whatever needs to be anonymised in terms of the services that were provided, who the service was provided to and who provided the service or whatever. The information will help the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: That is very helpful for our understanding on this end. I thank Ms Stewart. I thank the OGP and CCPC for the valuable work they do.
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Increasing rents.
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: How high will rents go before you recognise your mistake here?
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: What about 20%?
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Would rents going up by 20% be okay for you?
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Go on. I am just asking a rational question. What about 15% or 20%? What about 25%? Cuckoo land.
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You have set a new record and you do not care.
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The worst thing is you do not care.
- Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Caithfidh an tuairisc a tháinig amach ón mBord um Thionóntachtaí Cónaithe an tseachtain seo caite a bheith mar phointe ag a n-amharcann an Rialtas ar cad é atá ag tarlú ó thaobh iad sin atá ag díol cíosa sa Stát seo. Chímid ó na figiúirí a tháinig amach go bhfuil cíosanna ag dul suas 12% in aghaidh...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: That is not a point of order.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí eolas ar íocaíochtaí do na mná tí. [53574/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)
Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an míneoidh sí cén uair a bheas na toghcháin chun bord Údarás na Gaeltachta ann. [53573/23]