Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The Department's defence has been that it knew the costs anyway because there was a comparison available based on a submission made by Eir at an earlier stage in the process. The witnesses are clear that the competitive tension would have arisen in the latter stages of the process and usually as part of the final bid price, but that did not happen.