Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Many people who come before us spend a lot less than €150 million. You would have to buy an awful lot of flip-flops to spend €150 million. I think of the saga that happened in here last year. For a Government agency to lose or set aside - I am not even sure what the correct word is - €150 million, albeit for probably very good transport reasons in order that we will have a better system going forward for €10 billion, can the witnesses talk to us about the business case of how that decision was made? Was it accepted that amount of money would be lost when the route change happened?