Mr. Noel Waters:

The Deputy has put her finger on it. That is the balance we are trying to strike in respect of the process that we have in place at the moment, the negotiated procedure versus ensuring that we get appropriate value for money for the taxpayer. We could put a contract out for tender and look for a facility for a few hundred people. Let us imagine that a facility exists already in Skibbereen but a bidder in Bandon comes back with a lower price who can meet all of the service level requirements. In that situation, we would be uprooting hundreds of people from their home in one town to bring them to another town. We must consider all of the trauma and issues that go with that, in terms of access to housing, health services and so forth. We do not do that and that is why we have found it so difficult to find a tendering process that meets our needs so that we can continue to act in a humanitarian way. We have no interest whatsoever in uprooting families and people from their homes just for the sake of moving them on to another town up the road.