Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Tell me about the tender process. As we know, the legislation was rushed through the Dáil on a particular night in February 2013, although we understand it had been drafted the previous November. Therefore, although the legislation may have been rushed through the Chamber, it was not rushed legislation but was prepared carefully and in a considered manner. Tell me about the tendering mechanism, given word on it did not seem to leak out. How did the Department seek a tender for somebody to liquidate an organisation the size of the IBRC without word breaking out on it between the tender process and the legislation being brought to the floor of the Dáil? How was the tender assessed and what kind of figures are we talking about? I do not want to leave here today without a figure, because that sounds like a blank cheque.