Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am unhappy about this. I specifically asked a question on whether there were other triggers. This goes to whether there can be counterclaims, at what point one would trigger a counterclaim and whether it is just at the end of the contract. They went through in some detail that they had to wait until all of it was completed before they could decide whether there was a counterclaim. We are being told something different here. On the day when they were before the committee, I asked them whether there were any other triggers and it was an immediate “No”. This is going back on that. The Comptroller and Auditor General can tell me if I am wrong, but my interpretation is there are opportunities to make counterclaims and there are other triggers. There is this moratorium where they have all started to be nice to each other to try to limit claims and, for that reason, they backed off putting in counterclaims. There are other triggers. Am I right in my interpretation of that?