Ms Clare McGrath:

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is leading this with regard to the inclusion of social inclusion clauses. The capital works management framework and the various contracts that ensue from that are set out. No public sector procurer who avails of the use of those contracts can change them. We must go back through the Department and make suggestions, which we do in this regard. We would not run on our own on this because of the impact on the guidelines and the contracts the Department sets out. I take the Deputy's point about raising it first when advertising in the journal, but we would do that only under the auspices of the Department. We are practitioners in that sense. We are policy takers, but the policy is set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. However, where we have issues with elements of contracts or other issues or where we have ideas to improve things, we refer back to the Department, as do all other public sector bodies which procure works. They revert to the Department as well, and it would take on board all these suggestions.