Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank all our guests. I was a little surprised when Mr. Gunning, in reply to an earlier question, said that the most helpful thing the committee could do would be to visit the site. I am sure that would be an interesting visit but we are much more interested in getting up close and personal in respect to the fundamentals of this entire project. We would like some rigour on that. It is disappointing when we have the phrase in an opening statement that there have been hundreds of claims for hundreds of millions of euro. That kind of sweeping, throwaway statement is not acceptable. We should not have to dig down into these things to get proper answers. Mr. Gunning talked about rigour. We would welcome some rigour in respect of this project. Can he tell us what is the working assumption now in respect of the estimated completion date and the estimated total cost?