Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank all the witnesses for coming to this meeting. Looking through the briefing documents and, especially, as I have been listening to the contributions, I wonder if I have a very different perspective on this matter compared with some of my colleagues. I come to my questions with that query in mind. We obviously have a significant cost tension. Costs for this project have been going up and up. Many claims have been put in since the start of the contract. The last time Mr. Gunning was before this committee, I asked him if the level of claims being made in respect of this contract was much higher than has been experienced previously. I recall that he said then that it had been - I cannot remember the exact phrase - essentially exceptionally higher. Is that a fair reflection of what Mr. Gunning said?