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

To go back to the original position, I have a memory of several engagements that we had here. There was only one bidder for this contract and when it came down to it, people were put off from bidding. This is not the kind of scenario that some of them would have expected. There would have been people who were embedded in, and had expertise in, the market here but who then did not tender. This all seems very different from what the expectation was at the beginning.