Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Not commenting on a live tender is allowing the Minister of State to pull down the curtain of secrecy over expenditure by this State. The taxpayers of the State will pay for this. We paid through the bloody nose for the last one, we did not get the regulation we should have got and four people have lost their lives. What is the expertise of the individual in question? As far as I am aware, the tender for the expert who is advising on the current process has already closed, which means there is no problem telling us who it is and what expertise that person can bring to the Minister of State to assist her with this legislation and anything else she may wish to do. If that tender is closed, there is nothing preventing the Minister of State from telling us who won it.