Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Okay. There was much controversy around this at the time about the lack of the tender being really tested by virtue of the fact that there was really only one tender in the end. People entered into at the early stages but did not proceed to tender.

Looking at an academic paper by Gary Healy, Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves, the €5,500 that we are discussing to effectively pass each house and premises is, by a distance, more expensive and while we are not probably talking like with like, it is still costing substantially more than the experience in other European jurisdictions. Has the Department looked at that issue in retrospect on the value-for-money side?