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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: How many extra places did Mr. McCarthy say had been provided?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: How much did it cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Over what period?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: A total of €75 million was spent-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: The total figure is €75 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Therefore, the figure of €124,598 is just a drop in the ocean.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: This was widespread-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Were applications made for the 15,000 places?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: For children who never turned up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: For what was it used?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: In what timeframe?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Does that mean that if Acadian does not uphold its side then Údarás na Gaeltachta can claw back 40%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Has it ever been made public how much Údarás got for the company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Can Mr. Mac Eochaidh tell me whether the sum agreed was the best offer over any other offer received?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: What I am trying to get at, though, is this. Due to the confidentiality agreement, no one knows what the final sale price was because it was a private company doing a deal with Údarás na Gaeltachta. What if I was a competitor and felt I had a better offer on the table? Why was I not given a chance? We do not know the figure - I do not know the figure - and I doubt the delegation...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: If a competitor was also looking to buy the company, how would Údarás na Gaeltachta have known?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I am not aware of it either. I want to know whether the process is open and transparent enough that rival bidders can say to themselves that they lost out due to not offering enough money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: I mean in the sense of an open and transparent system.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Oct 2014)

Paul Connaughton: Throughout this process, were concerns raised with Údarás na Gaeltachta by people from outside the seaweed harvesting industry that this was not a good sale? Were there a lot of concerns over it? Did other State bodies or anybody else express concerns about the deal?