Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What I find so difficult about this tender is that if Irish Water stated it had a certain number of lots and I were asked blind about these consultants and I closed my eyes and thought about whom Irish Water would give the contracts to I would say KPMG, Ernst & Young, PwC, Arthur Cox and A&L Goodbody. Abracadabra - they won the tenders. Will Mr. Barry explain this to me? These are the guys who won all the tenders from the Government on banking and got it all wrong. Ernst & Young cost the State a fortune by not warning it about Anglo Irish Bank. All the usual suspects have turned up to win the tenders again. How does this happen?