Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

On a point of clarification, it is a bit different from a procurement process in which the Department or agency running the competition specifies the service or infrastructure that it wants to be provided. In this case, we had money and we had conditions that needed to be satisfied. As I understand it, the proposals from the different competitors would have been for different types of projects in different areas, serving different communities. All of them had to meet the criteria that would have been laid out in the invitation. If the Bytel project had not gone ahead and the money had been applied for something else, it could have been in a completely different area of the Border. Would that be fair?