Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is absolutely incorrect in his assertion. The fairest way of doing this was to get the DAA to put in its price at the appropriate time, and then give everybody else the opportunity to put in their prices. If there was a cheaper price than the DAA price, it would then have been taken. Unfortunately, if people do not comply with a tender document, whether for technical reasons or otherwise, as the Deputy is implying, we cannot ignore the process. The Deputy would have me before the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General if I interfered with a tendering and procurement process-----

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