Ms Róisín Fleming:

We are facing inevitable job losses on a large scale. To put this very simply, Ireland has a supply structure which is based on microbusinesses. The Government has put in place a public purchasing structure with a €9 billion spend which is only accessible to large companies. There is an imbalance. There is a supply chain of microbusinesses and a purchasing system which means only large businesses can win. There has been an attempt to force the current supply model to fit the current purchasing model. It has not worked. We have to start again.