Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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No, no. Hold on a second. There is a contractor engaged. There is a design team or project team. I understand all that, but that was not where the problem was arising. The problem was arising because, to put it straight, there was not somebody there on behalf of the taxpayer or the Department. I mentioned that here two years ago. It may seem like an old-fashioned suggestion but it seems like a common sense suggestion to me that there would be a clerk of works. Typically, the clerk of works would not have gone through university. The person might originally have been a carpenter. Most of them were carpenters.

What I want to clarify is a simple straightforward question about the Department's man or woman on site. Is that correct? Are they direct employees of the Department, "Yes" or "No"?