Mr. Maurice Buckley:

I will explain the procurement for all the contractors, including Actavo. We used a combination of existing framework contracts and an individual procurement where time allowed. Fifteen different headings were involved. We reviewed the procurement timetable with the Department of the Taoiseach, the Office of Government Procurement and the Office of the Attorney General. We decided that 13 of the 15 areas of activity were procured under existing framework contracts, meaning the suppliers had already gone through the checks and balances of public procurement. In two cases, an additional procurement competition was run - very tightly in the time involved. These were for CCTV and security. In the case of Actavo, for the camera platforms, media risers, trackway and much of the fencing on both sites, we already had a framework contract in place and we contracted the work out under the terms of that framework contract.