Senior civil servant felt political pressure over report
He also agreed with the Moriarty Tribunal legal team there was tension between his concern, as a member of the GSM2 project team, to make time for more scrutiny and the minister’s desire for speeding up the process.
Mr MacMahon, former principal officer in the Department of Communications’ regulatory division, said he felt the final draft report of the project team didn’t clearly show Esat Digifone had won. “I felt that it was dangerous to let the minister loose with a report like that,” he added.