Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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On the contract, because tendering is a very expensive process, contractors will only engage if they think they have a fighting chance of winning. There may be a contractor, for example, that went in low and made up the balance in claims. If that was the profile of how a contractor was conducting things, is that considered in the context of tendering for further projects? Is there any analysis in that regard? Can that be counted as a disadvantage to that particular entity when they are tendering? I ask this because there could be a double disadvantage here. In that scenario, others may not tender because they do not have a fighting chance. In that case, it is not a competitive process. It is not a process that should be competitive. Is that taken into consideration? There is no point in talking about learning lessons but then we do not learn the bloody lessons. Is that considered?