Mr. Michael Kennedy:

In a response to Deputy Connolly's point about a delay in the Gort-Tuam scheme, I said that it was because the project fell slap bang in the middle of the financial crisis and the private sector could not get funders. That scheme dragged on at the procurement stage, not at the construction stage. The procurement stage took quite a while to get signed. The Chairman is right that the national development plan in 2000-2006 identified PPP and particular schemes we were to procure through PPP. It was all set out, as the Chairman has said, back in the good times when there was a-----