Well I'm gonna swim upstream on this and at least partially agree with the DoT. If I was building an extension I wouldn't tell the builder I expected it to cost €50k in case he was about to quote me €49k. Ok, it's not exactly the same but to a degree it is.
In any parliamentary democracy, you elect your government and then basically you trust them for the term of parliament to do what's in the best interests of the country. I know this is a very optimistic way of looking at what can be a bunch of rogues at the best of times but that's how it's supposed to work.
A nation is effectively a very large business that has to balance it's books like any other. No business would disclose publicly all of it's forecasts/projections etc. Only the minimum required by law is usually disclosed to the public.
I'm not saying everything the dept. is withholding should be withheld but I'm sure some of it should until a tenderer is locked into a contract.
I wonder did The Irish Times get anywhere on the WRC stuff. That would be more interesting than metro figures IMV.
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