Mr. John Conlon:

We use contractors all over the country for building purposes and maintenance purposes. We do not have the workforce to do all the work ourselves. We find it more efficacious and effective to contract a lot of work out. We can scale up or scale down as need arises. We have regional contracts to do building works around the country and maintenance. This is a Dublin-focused contract. As the Deputy knows, we have a lot of buildings in Dublin which require constant intervention and constant maintenance. We need to be able to react quickly and scaling up and down with contractors is a effective way to do it.