Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not an engineer or a legal person but if I buy something, I rely on the advice of professionals. I bring in people who have engineering and legal professional skills and I ask them to advise me. The engineers clearly looked at the site and said the fill would be an issue and that Mr. Neilan had better include it in the contract. The legal people then went about trying to make sure it could be in the contract or putting a proposal forward of what one could insert in the contract. All of that took place in the year before the contract was signed and yet Mr. Neilan and the greyhound board chose to sign a contract and ignore those warnings. That is my assertion.