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

CRU mentioned yesterday that one of the difficulties - it related to the mineral oil in the cables, but it applied more widely - was that in the period from 2013 to 2015, which is the period we are concerned about, the ESB had serious significant contraction in the capital budget, which put a strain on its ability to meet certain capital spending areas. Did Mr. O'Loughlin have a sense of this or does he think it was part of the problem in some of the difficulties he ran into?