Mr. Paul Quinn:

We recognise that increasingly and as we look to how we will roll out the new frameworks we are very conscious we do not want to be reliant on single suppliers unless the market is very much structured in that way. We will again look at the market dynamics and try to structure our offerings and our tender structures, particularly how we lot out various different services for potentially some degree of local delivery where possible and that should enable SMEs to compete. In the context of my appointment and the new office I am setting up, we are meeting various different industry representative associations. For example we met Chambers Ireland yesterday and we are meeting the Small Firms Association and the CIF next week to discuss how Government procurement is changing and what changes need to happen and need to be facilitated within the SME sector for them to compete. As we encourage them to collaborate more and work together, they will be able to compete increasingly for business, not only from the Irish Government, but potentially abroad as well. It is something on which we are working with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Enterprise Ireland to promote within the community.