Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will be coming back to a lot of these questions. I just want to get the information so I can go straight into what I would have thought were the more awkward questions when we come back after the break. There were a number of sub-committees set up under the development board, such as the internal audit and financial control committees. Could Mr. Pollock talk me through the process? We know from the briefing note that in September 2017, the development board identified an additional €61 million. In late August 2018, the development board briefed the HSE and the Department on developments in the GMP process, that it was taking longer than had been planned, that the costs were trending very significantly over the original costs and the main contractor had just submitted very substantial additional cost claims. That is when the development board became aware of it. Would the subcommittees have been aware of it before that?