Mr. Paul Quinn:

I am sorry if the Deputy gets that impression, because it is not my intention to put that across. We are very aware that many businesses in Ireland are actually quite small and substantially less than the standard definition of 300. Having said that, we are trying to work with supply chains and with potential bidders in order that they can understand the mechanisms by which they can break into public procurement. Part of that is in respect of potential consortia, but also working with larger suppliers, where they can form part of a supply chain. In other words, they work with another group bigger than them and feed into that. We have examples of that in the managed print area, where a number of smaller players have worked with much bigger players to be part of a bid process and a part of the supply chain. For the example of Codex stationery the last time, somewhere between 120 and 130 SMEs fed into that. They were small businesses. We are not talking about businesses with 300 or 400 staff, but ten or 20.