Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Dr. Farrell. Dr. Farrell knows as well as I do that the only thing blocking us all from this is the procurement process. There might be a guy with a small digger beside a bog who Bord na Móna might love to take on but the problem is that the company must go through all of the procurement process involving transparency and that person may not be in that system. That is the reality on the ground, where the bigger guy is more involved the pricing and procurement area. In the case of procurement, I have seen it with all of the contracts that have gone out. The procurement process is gone from the small guy who, say, would be coming from doing drainage work for a farmer, cutting a bit of turf or whatever.