Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

These contracts came in in 2007 and they were being talked about for about five years before that. They were initiated because of all the talk about how long Dublin port tunnel was taking and how much of an overrun there was. We brought in this sledgehammer to crack a small nut. We put all the risk on the contractor, which was fine at the time.