The National Children’s Hospital. The Merrion Street bike shed and security hut. The Lansdown House wall. Now the Arts Council’s non-existent IT upgrade. Between those projects in the wider public eye and those reported exclusively by The Currency, such as the award of an €86.6 million homeless accommodation contract without open competition, public procurement is getting its fair share of scrutiny these days. The OECD, too, had some comments in its biennial economic survey of Ireland, presented at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin this Wednesday. The headline findings of the report are predictably aligned with the…

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