Disability booklet could have been printed here

NOBODY in Ireland should have any issue with the role of the National Disability Authority (NDA) in monitoring the national disability strategy.

Disability booklet could have been printed here

However, Irish citizens should certainly have issue with the negative impact that State procurement decisions are having on our own national industries, on jobs and on the economy as a whole.

Agreeably, the NDA, as with any other public body, is subject to national and EU rules on public procurement. Contracts on the scale of the NDA booklet, New Disability Plans, must go to EU tender, but other EU countries utilise the ‘wriggle room’ within the legislation to support their national industries.

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