Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Fraser, will you listen to the question, please, to avoid taking up everybody else's time? Was there a calculation done actuarially to establish whether we spent hundreds of thousands of euro of taxpayers' money in the long run by appointing an internal candidate? Did Mr. Fraser know when he was giving advice what the cost would be of providing Mr. Watt with the job over an external candidate without the same pensionable service in the Civil Service? Did he know how much the difference was? Did he try to ascertain what it was?