Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

It has, yes. The Office of Government Procurement, OGP, was established to try to short-circuit some of that so that not everybody had to start from the very beginning. Having framework contracts, it should be a shorter period, but sometimes there is not a framework in place when one wants a particular service. Members will see the explanations that are given. An explanation often put forward is that there was not an OGP framework in place, so a contract was extended for six months or a year to await the contract being put in place. It is very complex and a challenge, but it has to be approached professionally.