Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Government cleaning contracts within his Department (details supplied). [49711/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department has a contract in place for the provision of cleaning services in the office in question, where it is the lead tenant among a number of Government Departments, which is similar to the approach taken in many shared Government buildings. This contract will remain in place until July 2021 and can be extended for a further 12 months with the agreement of the contracting parties. The contract was entered into following a competition held by the Office of Government Procurement under the terms of its Framework for the Provision of Commercial Cleaning Services for Central Government.

The terms of employment for staff of this, or any, contractor providing such services to the Department is a matter for the company itself, subject to adherence to employment law, including compliance with the European (Protection of Employees’ Rights of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 and Council Directive 2001/23/EC.