Public Procurement

Part of Private Members’ Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 1:30 pm on 3 October 2011.

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Photo of Paul Maskey Paul Maskey Sinn Féin 1:30, 3 October 2011

That is not what I am saying. I am asking whether we could maximise that, and I think that we could. That is the important step that the Executive need to look at, and those are the important issues that every Department and local government agency needs to examine. We need to maximise the return for the money that we are spending. There are to be £4 billion in cuts over the next four years, and although the economy here is benefiting from the £3 billion, we need to maximise those benefits. That is the point that I am making.