Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

One of the variations is that the cost of the debt is not so great an issue. In a sense, the ultimate risk for the State is that if the problem goes wrong, it will carry the large capital-cost risk. If there was at least a private financing element, the banks or their bondholders would carry some of the risk cost, in the event of it terminating.