Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

ETB Ireland, which is an organisation that supports these kinds of processes in all of the ETBs, is assisting in developing the capacity of individual ETBs and providing training and so on on a collaborative basis. There is also scope there if two or more wanted to band together and run one competition. That is a possibility. Very often, particularly for fresh products or where small quantities are required locally, it may make more sense for the procurement to be done locally. One would not expect an individual school, particularly if it is a medium-sized school, to necessarily have a specialist procurement officer. However, I would expect an ETB to have one.