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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-02-21/32/
21 Feb 2017 -
for small and medium-sized businesses to public procurement....and value, where possible; the acceptance of consortia bidding to allow SMEs to participate in procurement...Challenges in the deployment of social clauses in public procurement arise from the need to ensure the...Social clauses have, or are, in the process of being rolled-out by a number of public service bodies,...The Bill is being put forward as a way to enhance the ability of SMEs to compete for public procurement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-02-21/32/
21 Feb 2017 -
International research shows that developing a strong SME base will increase competition in public procurement...which, in turn, will provide the Government with better value for money and increase efficiency in public...for money and social value for the economy and society....The legislation will require public bodies to have regard to economic, social and environmental well-being...in connection with public service contracts being put out to tender that have the potential to increase
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-12-05/37/
5 Dec 2017 -
Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed)
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-12-17/21/
17 Dec 2013 -
Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013: First Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-12-17/21/
17 Dec 2013 -
for the inclusion of social clauses in all public procurement contracts, to provide opportunities for...This Bill proposes to legislate for the inclusion of social clauses in all large public procurement contracts...The State spends approximately €9 billion annually on goods and services and the Department of Public..., which will have sole responsibility for all public procurement....To date, the Government's value-for-money strategy for procurement has focused solely on the bottom line
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2016-12-07/6/
7 Dec 2016 -
Deputy Eoghan Murphy There is nothing standing in the way of a local authority introducing social clauses...into its procurement contracts....Local authorities procure a significant amount of goods, services and capital works and have been doing...already in the public domain and on what the Office of Government Procurement has put into the public..., that should not be used as an excuse for local authorities to delay introducing social clauses.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-11-29/35/
29 Nov 2017 -
Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-12-14/18/
14 Dec 2017 -
Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Motion for Earlier Signature
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-12-14/14/
14 Dec 2017 -
Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-05-18/90/
18 May 2017 -
An Ceann Comhairle The Select Committee on Social Protection has completed its consideration of the...following Revised Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2017:...Vote 37 - Social Protection.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-02-21/32/
21 Feb 2017 -
Seanad was the Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2015, which Senator Marc MacSharry...Back in 2009, when I was Vice Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, the former Chairman, Bernard...Some €12 billion a year of goods and services are procured by the Irish State....What it does is set down the social value....This Bill will not stop that happening but what it will do is make sure that those in Government services
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-17/3/
17 Oct 2014 -
Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-17/2/
17 Oct 2014 -
This Bill legislates for the mandatory inclusion of social clauses in all public procurement contracts...Social clauses enable Government to use public procurement contracts as a multitasking instrument of...Merely using public contracts to obtain goods and services is now an outdated approach....In other words, social clauses are a tool for getting more value out of each public euro spent....While I do not argue that my Bill fully implements the new EU public procurement directives, it is simply
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-11-23/43/
23 Nov 2017 -
Affairs, Trade and Defence has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public...services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2017 - Vote 35....The Select Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection has completed its consideration of the...following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December...2017 - Vote 37.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-17/2/
17 Oct 2014 -
the opportunity to debate the Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013 and I thank Deputy McDonald...However, the use of social clauses in public procurement is a complex area....The reform of the public procurement function continues to be driven by the need to obtain value for...public money in procuring works, supplies and services....the wide variety of works, goods and services necessary to deliver vital public services.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-10-14/10/
14 Oct 2015 -
) Act, may, for example, be a useful reference in defining public service bodies covered under the Bill...The reform of public procurement is and remains driven by the need to obtain value for public money in...procuring work, supplies and services....It cannot be adversely affected by the inclusion of social value clauses....Public procurement is a very big market.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-17/2/
17 Oct 2014 -
Social Clauses in Public Procurement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members]
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-03-07/87/
7 Mar 2012 -
are utilised across the public service; public bodies have appropriately trained staff to implement...The National Procurement Service will play an important role in public procurement reform through ambitiously...They will achieve this by: working with bodies throughout the public service to increase the procurement...capacity of staff throughout the public service; informing public bodies of the savings that can be...These reforms will achieve better value for taxpayer's money through reform of public procurement arrangements
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-02-21/32/
21 Feb 2017 -
Services that could be and should be delivered with direct labour employed by public bodies with trade...the average tendering period for Irish PPPs has been 34 months with durations ranging from 22 months (social...Lengthy tendering periods increase transaction costs and reduce the scope for achieving value for money...Outsourced public services have considerably worse terms and conditions for their workers than direct...The Bill does not go far enough in broadening the conditions that can be stipulated when the State is
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-12-07/65/
7 Dec 2017 -
Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
