Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

We are in a four-year framework agreement with the contractors and we are starting into year two of the framework. We have been looking into that framework and seeing how viable it is but we are tied into a framework agreement so we want to try to get greater output from the current suite of contractors and work with the industry to try to attract more contractors in. The Deputy mentioned the current market conditions in supply chain and labour but there is also a significant push in the new build housing market. We are working to try to attract more contractors in and what they are looking for, which we are trying to work towards, is aggregation to make it commercially viable for them.