Mr. Michael Manley:

The Senator has put her finger on the matter. As the climate action plan points out, around 12% of Irish GDP comes through public procurement. There is a very clear mandate for the instruction of green criteria across government, bringing it into the Office of Government Procurement and its regime, engaging with suppliers about what they do, and providing support and guidance to people. It is a fundamental shift of inserting that climate dimension into all procurement into the future. This must be done in the overall framework of EU law, competition and so on, but nonetheless there is a very strong message in the climate action plan that a redesigned model of public procurement with green at its centre would be very much part of the future.