Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I have a fairly short observation. It seems that some of these are fairly regular items. How far in advance does the Prison Service look at cleaning services, for example? If it has a three-year contract, does it look at it in year two and work out when it needs to do a tender or that kind of thing? If it does not do so, that is where difficulty arises in the context of procurement. It would be worth going back to the Secretary General to ask what the processes are for predictable contracts that are due to expire.