Mr. Brian Murphy:

I am appalled by what the Deputy said about workers on a school project in Portlaoise being transported by bus. Nobody could justify that or subscribe to it in any way. I started to explain this earlier. The contracts we sign are PPPs. We sign them with the special purpose PPP company, which engages a contractor to run the site. That contractor might engage subcontractors who might engage further subcontractors. One can see how the whole hierarchy of risk develops. We are very active on the site. The team led by my colleague, Mr. Burgess, does inspections. I will ask him to expand on that in a few minutes. We exercise commercial judgment within the confines of EU and local procurement laws, which are very prescriptive. There is a huge risk here. One is on very thin legal ice if one decides to exclude from the process a certain contractor because one has heard a rumour that it did not pay somebody.