Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is nothing standing in the way of a local authority introducing social clauses into its procurement contracts. Local authorities procure a significant amount of goods, services and capital works and have been doing so for decades. They have the resources where they want to or should introduce a social clause based on the information already in the public domain and on what the OGP has put into the public domain and the work it has already done. While it is important that the OGP issue guidelines, and it will shortly, that should not be used as an excuse for local authorities to delay introducing social clauses.