Mr. Jim Breslin:

The PwC report states that in the advice, in terms of when the definitive business case was being developed, the design team were saying that it would provide 95% cost certainty. Had it done so, we would have been fine. I think, on reflection, what PwC is saying is that at various gateways where one is making big decisions, one should have extra technical eyes over the product. If I were doing two stage again, I would not simply take the design team's output. I would want somebody not associated with the project to look at it and say that it is 95% and that what one would see in terms of further development is within a margin of error of that type. In fact, what we have is a very significant design development which drives the cost upwards. That is the type of certainty I would want to see in any two stage.