John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It strikes me that the members of the board, rather than Mr. McFeely or Dr. Neavyn, should be here. I do not know if others feel the same way. It is comforting to know that one individual said "No" or "Stop". It seems extraordinary that nobody else did so. One has to assume that members of the board and others knew what was going on but said nothing over that ten-year period. I find that extraordinary. I would like to ask about the lack of a formal tendering process in four or five cases. I refer to specific examples like Bracken PR, Marketing on Demand, taxi services, Professor John Davies and Arlington Lodge. I do not know if there was a tendering process in the case of Carr Communications, which has also been mentioned. What should have been the process within Waterford Institute of Technology? Was it a requirement of the college's guidelines that a formal tendering process should have been adhered to and followed? How was that departed from?