Mr. Ciarán Ó hÓbáin:

I can absolutely and unequivocally say that the driver for the reports was the fact that the Government - the Civil Service - was doing its job in terms of looking at a significant major project, looking at the place we were at in that context, and understanding that we had to do a deep analysis of the alternatives were we to find ourselves needing those alternatives, and not do that analysis when a decision was taken or something landed on us.