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

Mr. Quinn was not even consulted on the steering group, as I said earlier. There was time pressure, so a decision was taken to streamline the process of dishing out €2 billion of the people's money in order to avoid a fine of €12 million. That is effectively what we are saying. Mr. Quinn is the head of procurement. He has extraordinary expertise and he is saying the system prevented him from picking up the phone or saying to the Secretary General at one of those meetings at 11 a.m. every Monday morning that he had grave concerns.