David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will revert to the overall cost. While I think we have arrived at this point with a clear view of what are the costs, it would have been better had we got the breakdown at the very start. I do not understand why it could not have been provided to us. I do not want to be unfair but maybe it was a tactic to not provide it to us so we would spend almost all of the morning trying to get figures, which really the Department would have had. It took us some time to get to a point where we now have the breakdown and can see the difference between the €1.433 billion and the €1.7 billion, as opposed to the €983 million and the €1.26 billion. Does Mr. Breslin appreciate that the figures would have been much more helpful to us earlier and we would have avoided wasting an awful lot of time, to be quite frank, in asking our questions to get to this point?