Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

His letter makes clear that he had made no firm decisions as to the "strategy" he was following in regard to this site.

No attempt was made to inform the viewers that the site selection committee at its meeting of 18 January had before it a site evaluation report prepared by Clifton Scannell Emerson Consulting Engineers and McCabe Durney Planning Consultants. It was evident to anyone who read the minutes of that meeting that this report was available to that meeting yet on Pat Kenny's radio programme today we heard there was no report. That has been repeated in the House today.

It was evaluated and scored 333 points. This was another falsehood and the people who had access to those records for the purpose of making that programme last night knew that report was available to the committee, if they read the minutes they showed on television. They knew this but they concealed it from the public with the result that Pat Kenny said today there was no evaluation of the site.

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