Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have been quite clear about the procurement process. The estimate was based on non-domestic information and on group scheme data. At the time it was an estimate. It was a long time before the tendering process, and once the tendering process was under way it would not have been appropriate for other data to be put in the public domain, considering a number of tenderers would have been completing the details of what they were pitching and so forth. It is clear that the figure which emerged from the tendering process is the figure that is required.

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