Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

"No" is the answer to that. The Department is contracting with somebody to do a big job on its behalf. I could not possibly, as an Accounting Officer for this Department, say the Department will have nothing to do with that. We have had a series of recommendations from the various working groups and the recommendations of those working groups have fed into the preparation of terms of reference which have been published as part of the tender. We then had a group evaluating the tenders which came in. Four tenders are coming in. On the evaluation group, there were people from the project board, of which I am a member, but I was not a member of the evaluation group; chairpersons of the working groups and people from the Department. It could not be any other way.

To be perfectly frank-----