Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be non-compliant with procurement guidelines in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the value and nature of the contact work carried out in each case; the year of each contract in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11380/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with Circular 40/2002, issued by the Department of Finance, my Department completes an annual return in respect of contracts above a €25,000 threshold which have been awarded without a competitive process. These returns are submitted annually to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General as part of the Appropriation Account process. It is that Office which determines if any particular contract is non-compliant with procurement guidelines.

The return for 2018 contained 8 such contracts and details are provided in Table 1. Additional information in respect of these contracts is available in the published Appropriation Account at .

The return for 2019 contained 9 such contracts and these are set out in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 24 November 2020.

The 2020 and 2021 positions will not be known until the Appropriation Accounts for those years have been completed and reviewed by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Compliance with procurement guidelines by bodies under the aegis of my Department is the responsibility of those bodies. My Department does not hold that information. The bodies in question may be contacted directly by e-mail by members of the Oireachtas, as set out in the below table.