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

The wording of the minutes is interesting. For instance, they state, “a developer who had indicated an intention to bid for this site”. Mr. Maloney approached Mr. McNamara because he thought he would be a good candidate to go into a joint venture with and informed Mr. Bradshaw of that. Mr. Maloney then approached Mr. McNamara. However, the way it is written in the minutes is that the developer had an intention to bid for the site of which the authority was aware and the developer would then welcome the involvement of the authority jointly in the tender. Was Mr. Maloney aware that Mr. McNamara was interested in the site?