Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----but we need a full examination, root and branch, of all of those deals that gave rise to concern within the Civil Service and the system. Those concerns are not new; they are long-standing. We need to know and we need to have a full examination of each and every one of them.

I will quote words the Tánaiste said in 2012, and bear in mind that when she uttered these words, these deals were happening under the cloak of commercial sensitivity. She said it outrages ordinary citizens to see successive scandals being uncovered at enormous taxpayer expense and the same characters and plot lines popping up repeatedly. This is what we are seeing here, the same stories, the same characters and, it seems, the same utter disregard for the taxpayer. If the taxpayer had been front and centre in the case of Siteserv, certainly it would not have been a case of awarding the deal to a bidder other than the highest bidder, I would suggest to the Tánaiste.

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