Questions Raised Regarding the Awarding of Irish Water Metering Contract.
This is a really interesting statement by Catherine Murphy, TD, on Irish Water. The core of it is as follows
In a PQ reply on June 12th 2013, Minister Hogan confirmed that the end of that month would be the closing date for bidders to apply to be considered for the metering contract. GMC/SIERRA, company number 530230 was one of the successful bidders yet that same company number did not come into legal existence until the 15th of July 2013. Fifteen days after the closing date for bids. How can it be that a company that did not exist when the deadline for bids closed could be awarded a contract? It would appear that GMC/SIERRA, a company with Denis O’Brien as a vested party, was somehow awarded a contract before it even existed?
Answers on a postcard please. If what Ms Murphy has alleged is the case, then surely there is a question over the whole process?
Brian M. Lucey 
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The question should be to see the tender docs but I suppose that’ll be ‘commercially sensitive’.
Well, this is embarrassing …. I’m tempted to say …… but I think this Fine Gael Government (propped up by Labour) is incapable of embarrassment.
There is a need for change ,
So, whose job is it to follow up on this? Companys’ Office, C&AG, Public Accounts’ Committee, Fraud Squad, even?