David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to return to the point about attaching conditionality to contracts. I am unsure whether there are any guidelines from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the matter or how it plays out. If there is no stipulation or requirement that the companies in question should at least engage with the industrial relations machinery, then I imagine the Department would have no difficulty with the principle. Is that correct? If we are going to pay a company to do a job under a public contract, it should engage with the WRC and the Labour Court. Does Mr. Griffin agree with that as a principle?