Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and value of procurement contracts for Covid-19-related spending in 2020 and 2021 that took place via negotiated procedure without prior publication in his Department. [11187/21]

Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of procurement contracts for Covid-19-related spending in 2020 and 2021 that took place via negotiated procedure without prior publication by his Department, by goods and service type in tabular form. [11219/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 35 and 36 together.

My Department conducted one Covid-19 related procurement via a Negotiated Procedure without prior publication in 2021 in accordance with the derogation as provided for in Regulation 32(2)(c) of the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations S.I 284/2014. Regulation 32(2)(c) states that the use of a negotiated procedure without prior publication may only be relied on in certain unforeseeable circumstances of extreme urgency. Details in respect of 2020 and 2021 are as follows;