Mr. Joseph Nugent:

The OPW manages the contract elements for major capital programmes. They are the eyes and ears around those project costs whereas we carry them. On the funding for a lot of these, we rely heavily on the OPW for the management and oversight of the cost elements.

In terms of the current range of ones that are under way, I am not aware of any that the OPW has coming to us. By that I mean that there just are not any where they have come to us to say that there are substantial or significant cost drifts. Where we have had one, I think there have been issues associated with Government policy around certain payments related to Covid elements. There would have been periods where certain building programmes had to pause in line with Government requirements, so there would have been some Covid payments there. In those circumstances they have been dealt with, and the contingency part of the budget has been allocated to those programmes. To answer the Deputy's question, I am not aware of any substantial issue.