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

As an ordinary five-eight member of the committee working on behalf of the taxpayer, I believe it is something we should scope-out and examine in terms of repurchasing the company or, at a minimum, the infrastructure, if the infrastructure was ever for sale on its own.

To return to the process, I wish to deal with the issue of governance. I am not casting any aspersions on the former Minister or anything like that, he is a decent hardworking man but I noted the various meetings that were held and that we have a report which states the process was not contaminated. How can we call it a tender process when there is one tenderer? Is that not just a negotiation?