Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I understand it we own enet and have been the major shareholders in enet for a long time. It has rolled out the metropolitan area networks across the country and we are shareholders in that, or maybe I am wrong in that. Enet told me that a number of years ago. The Minister can clarify that.

In the Minister's own statement he outlined what was wrong with this process right from the very start. He said that all of these meetings he had with Mr. McCourt were before the final tender was received. That is the problem. If the Minister had met him after the final tender was received, and everything was in with the Department, that might have been acceptable and okay, but this happened before the tender process was over. What was Mr. McCourt doing? Was he questioning what would work as a tender or make it work for him? This seems to make it work for enet and for David McCourt and not for the people of Ireland and that is the problem.

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