Mr. Jim Breslin:

It is a significant deficit in how we have communicated it and how the Government and the wider public have been informed. To be fair to the individuals involved - I believe they have said this to the committee - it is not necessarily a question of the two-stage process. If the design in the first stage had been approximate, or if it had approximated the final design - in other words, if it had been short in some areas and higher in others - we still would have had the hospital at a cost in or around the cost stage 1 produced or the original tender produced. What has happened is that in some areas, particularly in the mechanical and electrical areas, about which we have talked, there has been significant under-provision against the final design. Therefore, there was almost a systemic problem with the preliminary design in that it tended towards under-design to a significant degree. That has led to a very sharp and sudden cost escalation as the final design is fully costed through the GMP process.