Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That confuses us a bit more. He has provided a bit of information that where there is a singular, it can be viewed as a plural in legislation, but he has gone to the lengths of identifying the plural in one of the subsections, and does that not ask questions about the other areas? For example, subsection 3(a), which refers to payments to a qualifying contractor, and subsection 3(e), which refers to an individual contractor as well, but the Minister's amendment has defined that this can mean "contractors" in subsection 3(d).