Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is the same with any selection of a tender. Deputy Bríd Smith did not like me drawing a parallel with another sector about which I have some familiarity. We do not lay out before the Dáil the different people competing for a tender and ask 158 Members to make a decision. That is not the way tenders were decided in the Deputy's time, no more than in my time.

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