Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Many of those are individual small contractors who are way down the supply chain in terms of links with the main contractor. Will you discuss that? At the end of this we do not want to have a line of people saying they did not get paid. What can you do? I realise it is not easy but you must do something. As you know, subcontractors take a level of comfort from knowing that they are going to a public job. It is a Government funded job, although that does not mean the Government is going to pay them, but they go on the job on the basis that there will not be an issue with the main contractor being paid. This is a big issue in construction and this is a big construction project. Talk to me about looking after the 2,500 people.