Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

There are detailed assessment figures worked out by the RPA. The reason the RPA is not putting those into the public domain is because of the experience elsewhere on large tendering projects of international firms. All of the firms that will be tendering for this work are large international firms. They have different expertise. To show our hand would not be wise. That is the only reason for not putting the figures into the public domain. There are detailed assessments but until we see real quotations it would be unwise to put any figures into the public domain. The Department and the RPA have assessments.

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