Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I cannot remember now but we had multiple meetings and discussions on this matter. The Deputy will make his mind up on my stewardship or management of public money. I make the point again that we have multiple other projects across the State that are smaller than this but cumulatively far bigger in value that come in on budget and are delivered in the way the country wants.

Clearly, we have a flagship project here that involved a lot of complexity in cost. I have acknowledged that there are clear learnings from it regarding how information was shared and the consequences that it posed for me but if one looks at the many projects we have delivered, procurement processes worked well and good projects were delivered. This is clearly a project in terms of the scale of money and its importance and we must look at what went wrong and what could be done differently for other comparable projects.