A motion by Independent councillor Frank Durcan was deemed to be “superfluous” by the council executive at the January meeting of Mayo County Council. Cllr Durcan’s motion called for the procurement officer to attend a council meeting to explain his modus operandi for dealing with tenders.
However county secretary John Condon stated that the motion was “superfluous” for a number of reasons, one being that the procurement officer answers to the head of finance who is at the meetings already and that the county manager decides what staff members attend the meeting. Mr Condon also pointed out that the procurement officer had already attended a meeting in July 2011, when he explained the whole operation of his job, and that he could be asked to come in and do the same thing again at another time.
