Mr. Dominic Mullaney:

The guiding principle behind it was a fixed-price lump sum. This was very much the motivation. The Government has options. It could look at support for the industry through an ex gratia payment. It could look at changing the contract itself. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for the contracts themselves. There are the smaller contractors I have spoken about. At present there are six different forms of contract. Four of them are for projects greater than €5 million. A fifth is for projects between €500,000 and €5 million. The other is for projects of less than €500,000. They all have slightly different arrangements.