Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

So consultant E was around previously in the scheme. It got the job without a tender and consultant C was an auditor with procurement experience and it got the job. Mr. Griffin said consultant B had IT expertise but that was not really the case because he came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, so the expertise would not have been communications-specific and it certainly would not have been postcode-specific. We are dealing with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for long enough to know that it deals with everything other than postcodes. All of the consultants could potentially have been got in a competitive environment but it just so happened that they were not and it just so happened that one of them was a legal adviser previously and the other two were public servants who had retired at a very high level.