Alan Again, Naturally

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00010732Alan Dukes attending the Moriarty Tribunal

In his evidence to the Tribunal on Day 285 (1 April 2004), Mr Alan Dukes described how he carried out his own investigation into the second mobile phone licence process following his appointment as Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications.

He stated that he discussed the matter with Senior Departmental Officials and examined the process which had been followed by the Department for the awarding of the licence, the criteria applied, the requirements to be fulfilled by the applicants, the evaluation methodology, the milestones to be observed in the process, the involvement of the external assessors, the composition and makeup of the project subcommittee involved in the evaluation process and how the winning applicant was ultimately chosen.

He told the Tribunal that following these discussions with those Senior Departmental Officials he had no doubt as to the integrity of the process. Importantly, Mr Dukes stated that this view had not changed having regard to all of the evidence that had been given to the Tribunal.

Good times.

Earlier: “The €5million Was An Essential Component”

What Did Alan Say In Evidence (MoriartyTribunal)

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17 thoughts on “Alan Again, Naturally

  1. Clampers Outside!

    So, will this now discredited, useless, unreliable, likely biased snake oil evidence / statements be listened to or will everything he says be taken as padding nonsense or at best treated with huge suspicion… the latter I hope.
    He’s buried up to his balls in Dat Other Bollix !

  2. Mr. T.

    He’s a professional lobbyist. He’s in Leinster House all the time. Hardly an impartial view.

  3. Kolmo

    What else would he say? Of course they were confident in the integrity of the deal. their greasy buddy benefited from the deal that they were fully confident in, backed-up by professional opinions of the finest legal team that could ever represent both sides of the same deal, how would you not be confident is the question….

  4. phil

    I worked in the same building as him in in or around 2010, I do not work for a bank , it was a US multi…
    I used to see a stream of very interesting ppl accompanied by politicians and political ‘advisors’ , household names , coming to visit him, none of which were very happy to see me see them…

    Im not stupid enough to mention any names here, but I often thought , why would the head of IRBC risk being seen with X…

    Now of course it may have been above board, Im sure he would say he is happy to talk with anyone , that does not mean he would do anything for them , but still with all we have seen and heard , I suspected the whole thing was a fix

    1. dhaughton99

      Ah come on Phil. Drop some names. Please.
      Was it the “The Viper” or “Fat Larry” dropping off some painting?

  5. Bonkers

    This would be the same Alan Dukes who was on a salary of €500,000 a year as Chairman of IBRC. A while into the job he was asked in a media interview how long it would take to wind up Anglo & Irish Nationwide. Dukes replied that it would likely take at least ten years to get everything off loaded. A few weeks after that interview Anglo was liquadated overnight.

    Seems Dukes wanted to stay on the gravy train for 10 years, €5m in salary is not to be sniffed at, plenty of fringe benefits too

    1. Tá Frilly Keane

      What do they do with their money

      Like

      Dukes must have several triple Ah’ pensions as it is
      And he’s still scrounging!

      I’m with Russell
      Burn the rhymes with punts

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