John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 7 February 2017, if he will ascertain directly from the LGMA (details supplied), if any cost benefit analysis was carried out regarding the issuing of a State wide book tendering process which has resulted in the tender contract being signed whereby four of the six available were secured by Irish businesses and two have been secured by businesses based outside of the country; the details of the breakdown of the six lots and the monetary value of the tenders awarded, for example, each lot numbered and the amount of the contract attributed to it stating which are Irish and which are non-Irish, including the duration of the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7468/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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As advised in the reply to Question No. 264 of 7 February 2017, the information requested in respect of the national library book-stock tender managed by the Local Government Management Agency is a matter for that body. Arrangements have been put in place by bodies under the aegis of the Department to facilitate the provision of information by those bodies directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email address for the Local Government Management Agency is corporate@lgma.ie.