Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Ian Dempsey:
It was not technically a tender process in the sense of public procurement and so on. The Commission required what it called a fully open, fair and transparent process in LAG selection and, technically, that was open to anybody who could demonstrate interest, competence or local support for that. Ireland had a preferred outcome in that process. That had to be balanced and I will leave it to others to determine whether balance was achieved in that regard.
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