Martin Brennan headed up the project team that oversaw the competition.
Earlier, the Moriarty Tribunal has heard a senior civil servant defend the decision to award the second mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.
Mr Brennan said he could not account for the fact that the Department of Communications had kept no record of what the Tribunal called a very important meeting between department officials and members of the Esat Digifone consortium.
The meeting in May of 1996 discussed a change in the ownership of the consortium which, by this stage, had been selected and was in negotiations with the department for the mobile phone licence.
The tribunal has already heard of a strict protocol that was in place governing contacts with the different bidders. The protocol included the requirement to take notes and keep records of all meetings.
Mr Brennan says that protocol was really only applied strictly during the competition phase, which by May of 1996 was past.
