Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 391: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has a corporate procurement plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6345/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has established a procurement management unit. One of its tasks is to prepare a corporate procurement plan, as recommended by the Department of Finance in its national public procurement policy framework document of May 2005. In accordance with the timeframe prescribed by the Department of Finance, the first corporate procurement plan for my Department will be adopted later this year. The plan will cover both Vote 28, Department of Foreign Affairs, and Vote 29, International Co-Operation, and will be prepared with the assistance and guidance of the Department of Finance.