Mr. David Moloney:

On the issues related to employment law and legal terms and conditions, public contracts require people to obey employment law. They require people to keep records of how they have paid people, who they have employed so they are fundamental requirements of public contracts. Again, the enforcement of that is essentially through complaints to the contracting authority or to the WRC. So, again, those cases would be taken in that way. We would not have visibility on them necessarily here.

On the range of other issues that the Chairman has raised, there is some limited flexibility within the EU procurement frameworks in relation to social clauses and environmental clauses. Mr. Quinn has already pointed to some instances where green environmental issues have been taken on board. To the extent that they are taken on board, it is really the contracting authority that has to decide to do that. Perhaps that will change over the next three years as we roll out and implement the programme for Government commitments and take on board Government policy, including the new climate action plan.