Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)

I would like to ask the Taoiseach about Greyhound Waste. I refer not to the shambles that has existed in Dublin in recent days but a wider issue. How did Greyhound Waste get the contract? This is the third high profile public service contract it has won in recent years. It won a contract from Dublin City Council which is causing all the current problems. It won a very lucrative one from South Dublin County Council last year. It won those contracts despite the fact it had a blow-up with another State company, CIE. It had to compensate it by more than €1 million for overcharging. It seems very strange that two contracts should be given to the same Isle of Man-based company in a non-competitive tender situation when it was well known that it had to pay in excess of €1 million to another State-owned company for overcharging.

I am not blaming the Taoiseach because this did not happen on his watch.

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