Mr. Jim Breslin:

If in setting up this project we had not thought about that we would have been deficient. We did think about that. We considered that this project was of such as scale that it would challenge the HSE or any existing body because they would not have had experience of delivering a project of this scale and they would find it hard to deliver alongside the rest of the capital programme. The Government decided to set up the development board to recruit professionals into the development board that had major project experience and to put in place a competency board to oversee it. Were we facing this situation having used the normal approach to capital projects I have no doubt that we would be saying that we had got it wrong because we did not use people who had experience of major construction and that should have been done. However in this situation we went out to achieve that.