Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It may well be standard operating procedure for building a road, and we know about all the successes, but the public was under the uninformed impression, and certainly I was until I researched for this meeting and I saw "Prime Time" the other night, that as ridiculously high as €1.7 billion sounds, it is likely not to be remotely that price and if construction inflation continues, we can expect an increase of in or around 3.5% per year if levels remain the same, although many of these reports suggest they will increase.