Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know it is important but I am here as a questioner and Mr. Costello is here as a witness. I have asked him a very simple question to which I would like an answer as soon as possible because the witnesses or somebody else must have it. If the witnesses do not have it, we have a serious problem in that the witnesses have not looked at the outcomes in terms of cost overruns in other countries involving the model they state is the best one. That is my point. At the start of this meeting, the witnesses spoke about cables. They had a price for cables. It seems insane that they had 5.5 km of cable but in their first phase of pricing, they did not know how many strips of cable would be needed and whether it would be 5 x 5 km. How could they start off a tendering process without knowing how much wire they needed or without having a sum built in for that so that they could say it could go between X and X x 10?