Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I am sorry, I know there is a difficulty with the connection as we cross over one another. I will ask the following question of Mr. Buckley. How is it possible to determine that a contract tender is good value for money where there is essentially nothing to compare it to, where there is only one contract? Does Mr. Buckley accept that there were failings in that process? We can presume that the likely value of the outturn of the tender was wrong by approximately 50%. Once there was a situation where only one applicant suited the criteria, would it not have been better at that stage to look at perhaps creating sub-divisions in the contract? Mr. Buckley said in his opening remarks that he acknowledged that the company subcontracts a significant portion of this work anyway.