Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a great pity Dr. Neavyn cannot provide more insight in this regard. For anybody reviewing the figures the individual payments to PR companies of €37,000, €13,000 and so on are, on one level, quite modest. However, when one sees that tenders were not entered into and procedures were not followed, there is a question mark as to why that was the case. Was there, for example, a personal relationship between the provider of the service and the person seeking that service? Dr. Neavyn will appreciate that there is a real difficulty in terms of confidence around these items of expenditure.