Ruairí Quinn
Question:124 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Finance if he will list any public contracts currently held by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12238/00]
Written Answers. - Departmental Contracts.
Ruairí Quinn
Question:125 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Finance if he will list any public contracts awarded by his Department to a company (details supplied); the full list of such contracts; the purpose for which they were awarded; if the tax clearance requirements for public contracts were complied with in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12253/00]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 124 and 125 together.
No such contracts have been placed by my Department.
However, while it is not clear from the question that agencies under the aegis of my Department should be included, I have been advised that a number of such contracts were placed by the National Treasury Management Agency, which has supplied me with the following information.
Previously, unless parliamentary questions directed to the Minister for Finance made reference to bodies under the aegis of my Department, it had not been the practice to include information on such bodies in the reply to the parliamentary question. For the sake of completeness, I have now asked the following agencies, which operate under the aegis of my Department, namely, the Office of Public Works, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office and the State Laboratory, to provide me with any information relevant to the Deputy's question.
The National Treasury Management Agency directly engaged the company concerned on the following projects:
|
DatePaid |
Service Received |
AmountPaid IR£ |
|
26/8/92 |
Annual Report 1991 |
42,791 |
|
19/11/92 |
Annual Report 1991 |
339 |
|
4/3/93 |
End Year Press Release 1992 |
999 |
|
12/8/93 |
Publicity re 1992 Annual Report |
1,483 |
|
20/12/93 |
Production Management Annual Report 1992 |
1,815 |
|
DatePaid |
Service Received |
AmountPaid IR£ |
|
13/1/94 |
Public Relations – End year Results 1993 |
1,135 |
|
2/3/94 |
New Issue Savings Certificates |
961 |
|
16/6/94 |
Public relations Market Making |
1,408 |
|
2/11/94 |
Annual Report 1993 |
33,157 |
|
11/11/94 |
PR Consultancy 1993 Annual Report Launch |
1,990 |
|
8/12/94 |
Annual Report – Envelopes |
907 |
|
18/1/95 |
PR End Year Press Release 1994 |
917 |
|
10/4/95 |
New Maximum Holding Savings Certs & Bonds |
10,884 |
|
6/3/96 |
Advertising Small Savings |
11,046 |
|
26/4/96 |
Advertising Small Savings |
26,741 |
|
12/7/96 |
Advertising POSB Interest Rate Changes |
242 |
|
29/5/97 |
Advertising Small Savings |
28,891 |
|
29/5/97 |
Advertising Small Savings |
27,373 |
|
29/5/97 |
Advertising Small Savings |
786 |
|
20/5/98 |
Advertising Small Savings |
32,879 |
I understand from the NTMA that tax clearance requirements were complied with in all cases. It should be noted that many of the above amounts include payments by the company concerned to third parties for services such as printing and press advertisements.
I have been advised that the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of Public Works and the State Laboratory placed no contracts with the company concerned. The Office of the Revenue Commissioners has advised me that records of contract payments together with the identities of recipients are held on its financial management system. The original computerised system was introduced in 1992 and only holds records from that year. There is no record of any payment being made to the company concerned since 1992 under any contract. However, an individual revenue official has a recollection of attending a communications course in 1987 or 1988 which was presented by the individual identified with the company concerned. All manual records of payments prior to 1992 have been destroyed.