Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform prior to the appointment of Davy Corporate Finance as financial and commercial advisers to his Department with regards to the next National Lottery licence, if Davy's tender disclosed any registerable interest; did the Tenderer disclose any conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest and if he will confirm that Davy were selected a number of months ago to complete a feasibility study for his Departments National Lottery Licence Section. [47664/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Request for Tender issued by my Department on 16 July 2012 specified, in accordance with the standard Request for Tender document, that any Registerable Interest involving the Tenderer/subcontractor and the Contracting Authority, members of the Government, members of the Oireachtas, or employees and officers of the Contracting Authority and their relatives must be fully disclosed in the Tender or, in the event of this information only coming to their notice after the submission of a Tender and prior to the award of the contract, it should be communicated to the Contracting Authority immediately upon such information becoming known to the Tenderer or subcontractor. The Request for Tender further specified, in accordance with the standard Request for Tender document, that any conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest on the part of a Tenderer, individual employees, agents or subcontractors of a Tenderer must be fully disclosed to the Contracting Authority as soon as the conflict or potential conflict of interest is or becomes apparent. Davy Corporate Finance complied with the requirements of the Request for Tender in this regard to the satisfaction of the Tender Review Group which examined all the tenders received. In January 2012, my Department invited 15 economic consultants to tender for a short-term contract to carry out analysis on possible options regarding the next National Lottery licence. Five applications were received in response to this invitation. Following assessment of the applications on the basis of the criteria specified in the invitation, Davy Corporate Finance was awarded the contract for a fee of €615.