Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the complaints made against the Safefood agency regarding contracts. [10014/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The Food Safety Promotion Board — Safefood — is a North-South Implementation Body established under the Good Friday Agreement; its remit is to promote awareness and knowledge of food safety issues on an all-island basis. I am not aware of complaints relating to contracts. However, I am advised that one unsuccessful software tenderer has raised a concern with Safefood regarding its participation in a recent tender for a laboratory information management system which was tendered and awarded using the EU restricted tendering procedure.

Responding to this concern, Safefood held a debriefing meeting with the company in accordance with the European Union remedies directive. Safefood further addressed the same concern through freedom of information, FOI, procedures under the FOI code of practice for North-South Bodies and Tourism Ireland Limited. Safefood has informed my Department that it considers that it has fully and fairly discharged its duties regarding the unsuccessful tenderer's concern.