Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All the ordinary taxpayer - the ordinary Joe and Mary and lay people - sees is a figure that started off at €640 million and went up to €900 million, €1.4 billion and €1.7 billion. Even today no one can give a guarantee that it will not go up to €2 billion. No one said it would not go up to €2 billion when the question was asked twice by my colleagues. That is frustrating. How can any ordinary person accept it as bona fide when such numbers are still coming at us and that a guarantee is still not being given that it will stop at €2 billion?