Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The worrying thing, and one of the members has commented on this, is that the longer this goes on, the more it will cost and, it would appear, the more money the contractor will receive. Maybe that is not fair to the contractor, but the figure relating to claims is nearly coming up to the figure of the original cost. That would suggest there is some strategy, in that the board is being forced down the road of a compensatory role in relation to the contractor. I do not know enough about it, but for a layperson who is looking in, there is something wrong. There is clearly something wrong when the original cost of the contract will nearly cost the same in claims. There is something wrong there.