Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-05-18
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

The first problem I have with this is that if we, as the amendment indicates, directly substitute "comply" with "consider" we end up with a sentence stating the contracting authorities shall "consider with" any guidelines issued under subsection (1). There is an additional word, "with", in there, which makes sense when it is "comply with" but does not when it is "consider with". I do not know what the rules of the House or its Standing Orders are, but that wording does not make sense to me. I am happy to take out "shall" and change it to "may". That is fine by me but otherwise I do not think the second one works or it may be defective. I do not know what the rules of the House are or whether they can be changed.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-18