The fifth civil servant to give evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal has said that he made and kept notes of events related to the final stages of the competition for the second mobile phone licence.
Ed O'Callaghan said he did this because he was 'more than miffed' with aspects of the process. But he said he did not disagree with the final decision to select Esat Digifone as the winner.
Mr O'Callaghan was being questioned about a chronology he wrote out at the time and kept among his personal papers.
He said he would to an extent 'go along with' a suggestion that civil servants took this kind of action when they were unhappy with something and to show at a later stage that they were not accountable.
His notes from the time complain that no final report was signed off on by the project team and no final consensus was reached.
But Mr O'Callaghan said he wanted to draw a distinction between his unhappiness with aspects of this final report and the result, which he supported.
Earlier today Ed O'Callaghan admitted to the tribunal that he and a colleague were unhappy with the quality of the licence competition's final report and had looked for extra time to get it right.
Mr O'Callaghan said that he had a problem with the text of the report but not the result, which found that Esat was the winner.
He said the text, which had been prepared by a Danish consultancy company, was ambiguous.
Mr O'Callaghan said two days before the then Minister Michael Lowry announced that Esat had won the competition, he and another Department official sought an extra week to clear up aspects of what was then a draft report.
They were told that the additional time would be given, but the next day he heard that the Minister was going to proceed and bring the matter to the cabinet for approval.
