Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask Mr. Smyth about the business of the process itself. I note "process auditor" is Mr. Smyth's title. One of the most extraordinary statements I heard throughout the whole controversy was when the Taoiseach stated that the problem with the arrangement or meetings, whatever they were, the 18 meetings between the then Minister, Deputy Naughten, and Granahan McCourt, the dinners he had and all the rest of it, was not that they met and had dinner but that he did not have dinner with all the others as well. In other words, it is okay to have dinner with those who are bidding for the contract but one needs to have dinner with everybody. The other two bidders were SIRO and Eir. Did Mr. Smyth question them and did he find out if there were any dinners, lobbying or whatever?