Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Site supervision and design fees are construction costs. They are part of building a building. If the professional fees for building a building go up, that is a construction cost. Let us take VAT out. The construction costs have gone up by about €400 million, €420 million or €430 million, excluding VAT. Would the witnesses mind working backwards - and they may not be able to do it now - on that €1.4 billion? We are tracking different numbers. We started with the figure of €687 million from BAM. That figure then jumped and, by the time the final capital cost was identified, had gone up by €346 million, so we were nearly at €1 billion. From the original bid by BAM, it then jumped from about €637 million to nearly €1 billion.