Public Procurement Contracts
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-26
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

I have. I will not read out the names here today. I will raise it with the CCPC because I have been looking at some patterns involving contracts that have been awarded here that warrant further investigation and explanation. I will not identify the companies, even though I have the details here. I cannot see how companies that were involved in bid-rigging in Spain and were fined for doing so would then come here and the same concerns would not arise. There have been a number of very well-known projects where a number of the bidders would have worked together in the past and you find that coming up to the time when the contract is going to be awarded or the decision is going to be made, suddenly two of them pull out leaving only one bidder. This is a serious matter and we need to reassure the public that everything is transparent and we are really getting value for money in these projects.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-26