Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1500: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has produced an annual corporate procurement plan in respect of each of the years 2000 to 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2250/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The requirement to produce an annual corporate procurement plan comes from the national public procurement policy framework, which was issued by the Department of Finance in May 2005. My Department's statement of strategy for 2005-07 incorporates an objective of promoting procurement management reform by developing policies, processes and practices in support of a more strategic approach to procurement within the Department and those bodies under its aegis. In response my Department has initiated steps to produce a corporate procurement plan as part of the strategic planning process for 2006.