John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The key part of what Ms Stapleton said was that review is possible if the costs are justifiable. Financial officers within local authorities do not know what is going to come out. When they receive envelopes containing four tenders for a project, if they are lucky, they do not know what is inside those envelopes. They do not know if the Department is going to call a particular cost unjustifiable. That is where the issue lies.