Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have posed a few questions already and the Minister will respond. We know, based on the minutes of the meeting in New York, that this happened. That put the person concerned in a very invidious position, because that person was expected to take minutes on discussions outside of the process.

It has been reported that the programme director for the NBP tweeted this weekend, in response to an article posted by TheSunday Business Post: "A decision on the only game in town will hopefully be made in the next couple of weeks".

A second tweet read: "A lot of theoretical nonsense [Ash], these guys have no understanding of the telecoms market which is very complex as you know and we have just dropped almost 20 million on getting the best advice possible from people who do understand telecoms." The account in question has, I understand, tweeted around five times since it was created. The communications protocol I outlined earlier states that, as a general matter, members of the NBP team shall not discuss or communicate in any way matters relating to the procurement outside of the NBP team.

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