Civil servant miffed after announcement by Lowry

FORMER Communications Minister Michael Lowry announced that Esat Digifone had won the GSM2 licence competition two days after civil servants had been given a further week to finalise their evaluation report, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Ed O’Callaghan, one of the project team, made a handwritten note stating the project team effectively had no decision and no final report.

While he was unhappy with the quality of the evaluation report, he had no problem with the result, he pointed out.