Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to follow up Chair’s follow-up to my follow-up. The national development plan is heavily front-loaded with requests for tenders and procurement. Significant public expenditure will be devoted to extensive building projects, and consequently there will be large numbers of requests for tenders and many contracts issued. I refer to ensuring we do not end up with many supplementary claims because the relevant standards increase while projects are being built and developed. Should we be factoring into our procurement contracts, upfront, for the national development plan whatever measures will be needed regarding embodied emissions in future? Should we do that to avoid a situation where we have signed off on a pile of contracts, only for the rules to change and we suddenly find every contract already signed will be one that will enable contractors to come back and make supplementary claims?