Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed)
12:20 pm
Mr. Paul Maloney:
Yes. To me, and to the authority, the number of candidates based on that criteria, which, I think, are very important criteria, was limited.
Secondly, we were in a public tendering situation. Well known other developers who I will not name did actually bid for this as well. It would not have been wise to have gone around the market and indicate who you were going with, who you were touting your business to, what valuations you were thinking of. We had to be very specific.
Third, we did get, between the 3rd and the 20th, highly independent legal advice which confirmed what we were doing was correct.
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