David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is good information and I compliment the Department on providing such a comprehensive breakdown. The annexes that it attached are also helpful. We sought this information because so many schools had been affected. The impact on children was the main concern, but process was also an issue. The tendering process was one element of that, with oversight of the design and build programme another. Annex 3 is important from our perspective. It sets out who had oversight of what. It seems that responsibility for compliance with the projects rested with the contractor. Departmental personnel are involved in the pre-oversight arrangements. That is where we wanted to get under the bonnet. We requested this document in order to establish whether we would pursue and examine this matter. It was not just to get, publish and note the document. We wanted to get the information and then make a decision on whether to examine the tendering process, the design and build process, what compliance checks were in place and so on in order to learn from any mistake that was made. Was that not the reason? Now that we have the document, are we going to make that decision?