Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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454. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to progress legislation establish the Office of Government Procurement on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17114/23]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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In commencing the procurement reform programme in 2013, the Government decided that the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) be established initially as a Division within my Department, with an intention to establish it thereafter on a statutory basis.  I am currently considering this matter.  As the Deputy is aware, primary legislation is required to establish the Office on a statutory basis and, to that end, it was included in Government's Spring Legislative programme.