Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The biggest reason that this extortionate amount of taxpayers' money is paid to these private companies is because the risk is moved onto the private companies. In reality, the risk has been absorbed by the subcontractors. The risk is that children who should have been in schools were not in schools on time. Clearly, this is not good value for money given what we know has happened.