Mr. A.J. Noonan:

To say I was fortunate is one way of putting it. There was a very good lady in attendance from the Office of Government Procurement.

Deputy Perry and I soldiered together that day. It was fractious, if he recalls. It was small businesses in that region being put out of business, in their eyes, by the Office of Government Procurement, but, by the same token, it is Government policy on the savings. It is the whole remit. Deputy Connaughton has got the nub of it that the remit is too narrow. There was €63.5 million, if that is what they are claiming, in savings. How many companies have been put out of business? How many communities have been destroyed by their actions and by them interpreting their remit very narrowly? That is important.

Ms Fleming has articulated very well what we believe would be a superb remit for everybody in which business, Government, the taxpayer - everybody - wins. If we have left the committee with anything today, that is what we would like to have left the committee.