Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are due to visit tomorrow. I look forward to that because there is nothing like seeing the situation on the ground. The only sight I have had of it up to now is from outside the perimeter fence, but I look forward to being in and around it with the other members of the committee.

On the cost and the claims, of the six grounds set out, the sixth concerns contractors' claims for delays, extensions of time, disruptions due to employer’s delay or compensation for events. I take this to mean that Covid would come in under that. We know the contractor was off-site for 15 weeks, and there was a shutdown of construction for seven weeks. I have not been able to find any good reason an extra two months was added on to that. Am I correct in stating that the main contractor, and the contractors working for the main contractor, would have been in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme and the temporary wage subsidy scheme? I would like a “Yes” or “No” answer to that.