Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I have a final question about something which I do not believe has been covered. The ESB doing this has been mentioned a lot. These are all hypothetical questions, but, for the purposes of clarity, if we were to roll out a contract such as this again and it was to be given to the ESB - we know what the issues are with state aid rules - will Mr. O'Leary clarify that a new procurement process would have to be gone through? Does he have an idea of what the timeframe would be for the process? In general, how long would it take?