Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)

I will. They are lengthy and, obviously, all the issues will be investigated. First, on the matter of tenders and limits, I accept there is an issue of whether something is a structure. In this case the issue was the provision of tents and marquees to provide emergency accommodation for the press attending and the definition of a new sprung structure, with which I was not familiar, which would be regarded as a building and what is in effect a marquee. Any of us who have been inside some of these expensive marquees lately would find it hard to tell whether they were a structure.

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