Mr. Dominic Mullaney:

On 7 January, we got notification from the Office of Government Procurement, OGP, which is part of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, advising about the new tender arrangements. TII and all other relevant parties would have also got it. Obviously, if we had had any contracts in that situation, we would have checked them for it. The point was it was to apply to contracts that were being put in place from 18 January. It does not apply retrospectively. In the Deputy's second part, he suggested that if there was an agreed clause, then something similar or a variation of it could apply.