Departmental Contracts

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 November 2022

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Questions (748)

Jackie Cahill

Question:

748. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the names of all companies supplying private security and cleaning services in his Department, including the cost of private cleaning in his Department, the cost of private security in his Department; the number of private cleaners supplied to his Department to provide these duties as part of these contracts, and the number of private security personnel supplied to his Department on foot of these contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59734/22]

Written answers

Minister for Health

The following table outlines the requested information.

Service	Company Name	2020 Cost (€)	2020 Numbers Supplied	2021 Cost (€)	2021 Numbers Supplied	2022 Cost to date (€)	2022 Numbers Supplied
Cleaning	Clarus	226,320	6	-	-	-	-
Security	G4S	55,030	1	-	-	-	-
Cleaning	OCS	42,899	9	183,300	9	152,556	9
Security	OCS	14,259	1	58,368	1	48,640	1

These figures reflect increased cleaning and sanitisation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As numbers varied slightly in response to the requirements of the pandemic, the table reflects the agreed contractual levels. Following a procurement process, the cleaning and security contracts were replaced by a single contract in Q4, 2020.