Mr. Tom Costello:

I will go back to the benchmarking exercise. AECOM is a reputable international company with a reach across the world in terms of the data that it collected. The information it has given us is supported by facts and figures from a range of international hospitals similar to the children's hospital. At the end of the day, the information it has presented to us, which we are happy to share and which can be interrogated, is that the average cost for building a hospital of the size and complexity of the children's hospital is €5,951 per square metre.

We are above that figure, at €6,500 per sq. m. They are the facts and we are happy enough to have that information to validate it.

In terms of accountability, we are a very accountable group of people. Our board was appointed based on the skills required to deliver a project of this complexity and scale. We appointed an executive team, headed by Mr. Pollock, and across the board the expertise on our executive team matches or is much better than what would be seen on any international project. The project is managed really well; there are experienced people involved in it and we have set about our work in a structured way.