Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is the result of the two-stage approach. The important point is that we were told that any future cost escalations were going to be the responsibility of the contractor. PwC said that was complete nonsense, and that the future cost escalations will be borne by the Irish people. Can the Minister explain why there is such a total divergence of views between the Department and the development board on the one hand in terms of what the guaranteed maximum price actually means and what PwC has just told us on the other?