Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is what it looks like to me, I must say. It looks to me like there are so many coincidences happening here.

Big players are withdrawing, another lot are coming in with a bid which they know will not succeed, and one group gets through the hoops by €1 million, a tiny amount. That is not competition. I still cannot understand how, when NAMA saw this, it could say there was competitive tension, which is a pretty diluted phrase. Surely it should have said, "This stinks. We are going back to the drawing board."