Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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546. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of contracts approved in her Department in 2019 and to date in 2020 without competitive tender; the details of the contract; the company awarded the contract; and the full value of the contract in tabular form. [33281/20]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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My Department strives to ensure that there is an appropriate focus on best procurement practice and that procedures are in place to ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines to the greatest extent possible.

Where exceptions do arise, as provided for under the provisions of Circular 40/02, the Department provides the details of such instances to the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

The details of instances that arose in 2019 are included in the Statements on Internal Financial Control which forms part of the Annual Appropriation Accounts published by the Comptroller and Auditor General at

Details pertaining to any instances which may arise for 2020 will be contained in my Department’s 2020 Annual Appropriation Account which will fall to be published by the Comptroller and Auditor General in due course.

Procurement within the bodies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for which the bodies themselves are responsible.