Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Parlon and Mr. Sheridan. I come from a construction background. The history of the public works contracts we have, for the benefit of the committee, is that they were introduced in 2007. Negotiations had been ongoing at the time, but the then Minister for Finance guillotined the whole process and brought in these contracts and forced them onto the industry. For the first seven or eight years the risk was masked by a recession.