Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the totality of the contractual arrangement as such but it is important as well that the State take a strong position within all of the contracts that it is engaged in. From our perspective - over the past number of months we have been looking at broadband, the children's hospital and the national lottery - it is apparent that on the private side the operators take the most robust position available to them within every contractual arrangement and it is of interest what the State's overall approach is too. We would take the view, or certainly I would take the view, that the State should be at least as robust in its approach to the different contractual arrangements that it is engaged in in the public private partnership, PPP. When Mr. Buckley says that the OPW will get it resolved, it will make a decision and it will be resolved financially then, would he give me a sense of how long it is taking to make this decision?