A supplier of safety equipment and uniforms was paid more than €3 million in 2020 in a process that broke rules for the awarding of state contracts. Picture: Getty
An Garda Síochána broke public spending rules with an outlay of more than €4 million on clothes, shoes and PPE in 2020, it has emerged. Figures provided to the Public Accounts Committee show a breakdown of non-compliant expenditure totalling more than €8.7 million from 2020. The gardaí awarded some 44 contracts that year without a competitive tendering process, a letter sent to PAC by the gardaí shows.
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