Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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I will quickly ask the question and if we have to suspend before the answer, that is fine.

The question is for the Minister of State. The green public procurement strategy has been referenced and I ask about its roll-out. One of the recommendations in that strategy was to have legislation, actual legislative measures. I am picking up on what Senator Murphy was said. The Minister of State will be aware that I have introduced legislation within the EU guidelines, which proposes a price-quality approach being the default rather than the lowest-cost approach. Inserting price quality or indeed life-cycle costing provides the space to start bringing in those criteria in determining who might get it. On life-cycle costing, does the Minister of State believe the changes to the omnibus Bill might make it harder to track carbon emissions down the line?