Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A second area I want to focus on is the contractor payments made by the Department. We see that additional payments were made to NBI. The Department's team is supplemented by external legal, financial and technical advisers. To what extent is the Department reliant on additional experts to measure work carried out by NBI? We previously talked about KPMG and EY. More than €42 million has been spent to date on external contractors. Will Mr. Griffin explain why that is the case? What will that spend look like over the next 25 years of the project? Is that part of the €2.7 billion for the original contract?