Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

What is very clear is that there is a process failure in terms of the way this was proceeded with, and we can see in hindsight that it is a very costly way of doing things. Indeed, had this been presented as a project that was going to cost over €1.7 billion, whether it would even have been proceeded with is in question. It was incredibly important that this was not a guesstimate but a serious estimate. The way this was proceeded with shows there is a serious lack of expertise feeding into this, to all appearances.