Ms Ethna Brogan:

As I said in my response to Senator Horkan, we are engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at present. We are relaying to it the difficulties that are being relayed to us by Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the industry. We are feeding those details into that Department, particularly in regard to the public works contracts. Ultimately, any decision on the format or on changes to those contracts will be a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.