Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It becomes almost a business conversation when we talk about procurement. I could envisage a situation where there would be very large operations from outside the State that have experience of this kind of thing. The Chairman alluded to this earlier, but if we are going to encourage a group of people to tender, establish an office and employ people, it then almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in terms of the institutional arrangement that we will have, and we are talking about an overhead cost of something like 38%, according to Barnardos. We will end up on the reverse side of it where we will be talking about people losing their jobs, and pressure is applied. The formulation of the terms of preference for the procurement will be very important. What work has been done on that? Some of this will happen quite quickly.