Mr. Fred Barry:

On somebody's tail.

On the question of maintenance and renewal works and how they are done, some local authorities carry out maintenance and renewal works directly with their own labour force, although that is probably done less and less in recent years. Most local authorities put much of this work out to tender. Many of the smaller schemes which would use the same equipment and might be attractive to similar contractors or suppliers goes out to tender. The tenders are advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union. I am not familiar with the equipment that he has in mind, but anybody who is aware of innovative equipment or methodologies should contact us as we are always interested in hearing about them. If people get in touch with the NRA, we will give them a hearing and if we think the equipment is useful we will distribute the information to the local authorities.