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

Is that not the problem in the sense that it tendered for a preliminary costing based on re-measurable quantities, as part of phase A? That is why we ended up with this problem. That is where the costs of escalated. It tendered essentially by "picking a figure out of a hat" rather than a real figure in terms of the overall costs.