John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The correspondence in question is a classic case of bureaucratic doublespeak especially when one gets to the third paragraph. It does not explain what has happened. It just takes fragments of different regulations and constructs an argument as to why the Department did what it did. The correspondence does not explain how the Department got into the dreadful mess of a disastrous tender process that ended up being extremely embarrassing for the Department in question as well as for the Office of Government Procurement. I am not surprised that Mr. Hamill did not appear before the committee today. I can understand why he would not, considering the mess which has been made by him and his officials. We will deal with this, as best we can, through the Office of Government Procurement.