Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To be clear, there is no consortium. There is a list of subcontractors identified as partners. It is language that has been used loosely throughout the process. There was a consortium at the beginning that included John Laing, SSE and Enet but over the course of the dialogue, the character and nature of that consortium changed to the extent that at the end the only party was a finance house out of Boston, namely, Granahan McCourt. There was recognition that there were subcontractors but not against which their reputation could be held to account as they were just subcontractors. They are not part of the consortium. They are not asserting anything other than-----