Mr. Jim Breslin:

Having done that - this is where optimism bias comes in - I was aware that the development board was responsible for the project. Obviously, it would put forward the information and seek to do so and be full and open and transparent but best will in the world aside, I thought it would be good to have some external advice on this. That involves people with technical skills, which we do not have in the Department, to put their eyes across the GMP report produced by the development board and look at the options that were being presented. The HSE has a good deal of that expertise. It has an estates function, technical procurement functions and so on, so I asked Mr. Dean Sullivan to arrange for that external look at what the development board was saying.