Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister of State certainly knows, the practice has been that it is the procurers who decide what it is they are procuring and they create the need for the framework. If they do not embed the need for green principles, it will not make it into the framework and they will not be found to be non-compliant because it was not specified in the first place. The view has always been that unless the procurer is looking for a green procurement approach, one will not be provided. That has to change. The responsibility has to change. That means someone must ensure that happens because it is not the practice to date.