Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

What I reported was: "we are aware that construction work, including a site survey ..". Therefore, at the commencement of construction when a contract was in place with the contractor, a site survey was undertaken. Subsequently, a second more detailed one was undertaken, when the site conditions proved to be different from what the first site survey undertaken by the contractor had suggested, which found greater difficulty with the ground conditions. The Department told us it understood two further site surveys - that is four in total - had been carried out on behalf of Solas in advance of the first tender competition.