Mr. Robert Watt:

The Chairman and I have debated this point in the past. Every procurement process of any scale that we undertake in Ireland leads to the threat of legal action or to actual legal action. This is a very litigious area which is covered by EU directives transposed into Irish law. There are armies of solicitors working for the main contractors. This is a very contested space in terms of how the awarding of the contracts is managed and in terms of the delivery of the contracts and how they are operationalised. The Chairman is aware of the situation we had in Grangegorman. He has previously quizzed me on that situation, which led to a three-year delay in that contract. There are many other cases. Unfortunately, there are difficulties.