Mr. Phelim Devine:

They vary but if I was to categorise them, there are claims for little things that change. In terms of the design that has been issued for the project, the contractor is responsible for a lot of the design. Bringing the contractor's design and the employer's design together might move something in the building. A rainwater pipe might move and it requires a different box set so there would be a claim for that, and it is a minor claim.

The bigger category of claims is to do with delay. Mr. Gunning has set out that the project is currently in delay by ten months so the contractor will seek to try to recover the cost of that delay. That is where the big money comes in. Some of these claims - the €300 million - overlap so they are all time claims. If one added the aggregated time together, the claim is less than €300 million. If they claim for four or five different things and a time delay, if they seek to win one, which they have not to date, the other ones might fall away. Does that help the Deputy?