Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To be clear, the concerns are simple. They are that the bid process that the CRU undertook allowed a broad spectrum of actors into the bid, some of whom clearly bid low - take away the other elements that I have said - and who ended up winning and being unable to deliver. The purpose, at least my understanding of bids generally, of having a pre-qualification is that one removes the potential for tyre-kickers in the first instance and those that might seek to use the bid process for other commercial purposes, in other words, to try to block access of others. It is part of an approach to ensuring that there is fairness and that one gets what one wants and does not get somebody coming in and throwing one out - market capitalisation or whatever. In light of what has happened, was the CRU's bid process fit for purpose? In another time, would Mr. Melvin have looked at the pre-qualification and viewed it a little differently?