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

Okay. I will find the quote for Mr. Smyth and send it to him.

Mr. Smyth states he believes the process is not tainted by the meetings between Mr. McCourt and the former Minister. Is the process at all tainted, although maybe not by the meetings? Most people who vote and put us in this House would look at this and ask, "In the name of God, what sort of tangled web of corruption and deceit is going on here? What is our public money being spent on?"

Something Mr. Smyth, as somebody who conducts auditing of processes, might explain is whether at any stage he considered that there should be an investigation into the fact that one of the bidders who came late into the process himself was under investigation for the sale of Siteserv and whether that has ramifications for the process of the tendering. He came in late. It would be like me coming to compete in the tendering process, as Bríd Smith Limited, telling Mr. Smyth I have Bank of Ireland and Sisk builders on board and we three will do this together but then, a year later after I got the tender, stating that I have not Bank of Ireland but Bank of America, and I have not Sisk but Murphy. Is that sort of process okay? That is what happened here in SSE being replaced by the Irish Infrastructure Fund and then John Laing being replaced by Denis O'Brien at the table. Is all that acceptable in the process of tendering?