John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a derogation in circumstances in which the figures change. There was a change, not in the tender process but in the circumstances of all of this. The other bidders - if there were other bidders - would surely have had to be asked. It changed, and the Department stuck with the one contract and the one tender. Even though there had been a change, it did not revert back to any of the other players. Has the children's hospital board left itself open to legal action?