Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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651. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the guidance the OGP gives to local authorities in relation to establishing an ethical procurement policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19703/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Office of Government Procurement (OGP), a division of my department, is the national authority on public procurement, with responsibility for all procurement policy and legislation in the State. There is no ethical procurement policy for which the OGP is responsible. The OGP advice to all Public Bodies is that the 2014 Public Procurement Directives allow individual Contracting Authorities introduce social considerations in public procurement, as long as such considerations are linked to the subject matter of the specific contract.