Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When I first became aware of this projected cost overrun, I immediately thought that someone had decided that the project was too expensive and should stop. In whose interest would that be, by the way? Knowing how the system works and how rumours extend within Departments and structures such as the HSE, what was the immediate knock-on effect when the overrun was identified in 2017?

I would like to go through the details. We have heard various exaggerations of the cost overrun. When was the figure of €660 million or whatever it was first identified? When was the VAT added to it? I am asking so that we know where we were coming from with the overrun.