Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the course of previous deliberations with the Secretary General of the Department, we spoke about public private partnerships, PPPs and other matters. I made an assumption, as did other committee members, that a certain person was the contract manager on a PPP project all along. We had an entire discussion in the context of that incorrect assumption. Nobody corrected that and the person concerned suggested in correspondence that we could have asked. We were not corrected and did not know that we should ask because that was the information we were given at the time. I ask the witnesses to put it on the record that the person referred to at our previous meeting, who we are not naming today, was not the contract manager until such time as the operational phase of the PPP project began. Is that correct?