65 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the circumstances in which a contractor that won the bid to provide a replacement system for the issue of passports, reported on by the Comptroller and Auditor General, was a consortium headed by the firm of consultants who had been engaged to conduct the initial review for his Department and which made the recommendation for a replacement system in relation to the cost of an automated passport system; if he is satisfied that normal tendering guidelines were complied with; if he will identify the contractor; the arrangements he will make in order that commercial contracts entered into by his Department will withstand public scrutiny and are at a fully arms length basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26828/05]

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65 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the circumstances in which a contractor that won the bid to provide a replacement system for the issue of passports, reported on by the Comptroller and Auditor General, was a consortium headed by the firm of consultants who had been engaged to conduct the initial review for his Department and which made the recommendation for a replacement system in relation to the cost of an automated passport system; if he is satisfied that normal tendering guidelines were complied with; if he will identify the contractor; the arrangements he will make in order that commercial contracts entered into by his Department will withstand public scrutiny and are at a fully arms length basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26828/05]

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