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

I am sorry. It decided and went to the cross-government contracts committee and outlined the best way to proceed. It came to the Department in 2017 and it agreed with it, but at no point did it state processes in other jurisdictions were considered and that sometimes when the full design was not made on day one, the price could escalate to the level quoted by Deputy Durkan. The Department was not informed by the competency-based board of the deficiencies or possible hurdles. How was it supposed to make a decision?