Mr. Micheál O'Connor:

Private multinational clients do engage the contractors, as I outlined, with early contractor involvement and so forth. It is all about trying to iron out problems when they cost the least, which is before they go to site. One also has to recognise that public sector projects undergo public scrutiny. All projects encounter problems. In the private sector, a group of people can get around a table and solve a problem. That is our job. That is why we are employed - to solve problems. It is not as easy in the public sector because it undergoes a lot more scrutiny. If one is making decisions in that environment, it is probably a lot more difficult to make those decisions because there is a much greater public spectacle on you in doing so. There is a different type of accountability.