Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 25 November 2020
164. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39050/20]
View answerInformation in respect of the inclusion of social clauses in individual contracts is not routinely compiled by my Department. I will arrange to have the relevant details in respect of the Department's contracts collected and forwarded to the Deputy in due course.
Further information requested in regard to the inclusion of social clauses in contracts by an aegis or other publicly funded education body is not collected by my Department. The information is not readily available and would require significant resources to compile in respect of over 4,000 education related entities. If there is information on a particular body required by the Deputy, I will endeavour to have the information forwarded to her.
