Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

It was part of the process. The consultants came forward with the proposal that it should be a two phased thing and should be benchmarked. The right to terminate the competition at the end of the first phase was included in the document just in case there was no second phase, so that we would not fork out €800,000 to the consultants for a phase of work that they were not going to do.

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