Mr. John G. Murphy:

In the public sector, Uisce Éireann and ESB Networks have moved more towards frameworks in recent years. Certainly, frameworks are bog standard in the UK. Probably one difference between Ireland and the UK is that, for a project of €100 million, clients would insist that the contractor has a multiple of that figure in turnover so that such a project does not impact the contractor. They do not want a contractor with a turnover of €100 million attempting to do a project of €100 million because they would need to double their resources to do it. In Ireland, it tends to be less selective than that. In one project with a framework of €200 million, the bar was set at €8 million. That would be unheard of in other jurisdictions.