Ms Clare McGrath:

They could be multi-year contracts. It would depend on the circumstances and on what were the local arrangements. When such a contract is put out, we might not have a large audience for it and it might not be valued. It is like the Deputy's subsequent question, in that one looks at the market, at what the OPW wants and where it wants it and one then determines the procurement around what is the optimum, both for people to be able to apply for it and in respect of service provision and in order that the OPW is not obliged to go back out very quickly thereafter. However, such contracts are advertised.