Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

May we also write to the Office of Government Procurement, OGP, regarding public procurement? Many of these tenders are coming in at the time of tender and by the time the project is finished, the price has doubled. Some kind of stipulation must be put in such that the price at which a project is tendered and the procurement is won cannot be exceeded. What is happening does not make any sense. Procurement is not working within the State if a price that is procured and agreed at the start of a project goes on to be doubled. That is not working. We need to write to the OGP to ensure that regulation is being implemented.