Dara Calleary
Question:206. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of transposing European Communities (Award of Public Authorities’ Contracts) Regulations 2006 (SI 329 of 2006). [46416/15]
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There was no cost over and above a proportion of the salary costs of the officials involved in the transposition of Directive 2004/18/EC via Statutory Instrument (S.I. No. 329 of 2006) during the period 2004 to 2006. At that time an experienced Assistant Principal was primarily involved in the transposition process along with support staff under the supervision of a Principal Officer. The Statutory Instrument itself was drafted by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC).
Every effort was made to minimise costs and to optimise the internal resources and experience available within the National Public Procurement Policy Unit at that time. Cost allocation almost 10 years on from the process would be purely indicative.