Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

November 2018. We received a bid in September 2018, as the committee will be aware, and the NDFA was in the review process of the evaluation of the team. It was not on evaluation teams but it was on what we call an evaluation review panel and on the procurement board. It was represented on those two stages of our governance of the tender process and over the course of September, October and November, it was involved in many meetings to review the tender in terms of whether it qualified through the questions that we set out in the tender documents. It was involved only in the questions that related to finance and the commercial finance aspect of the bid - not technical, not legal or anything else. It was involved only within the confines of its remit as a financial adviser to the State. We had senior people involved from the NDFA. I would not underestimate that involvement. They were very much involved.