John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Everybody here seems to be saying that we do not want to come down on any side vis-à-visthe board and BAM. Without meaning to belittle the situation, for context, it seems to me that if a contractor was working on a school or a house and there were questions about a low rate of productivity, progress reports not being provided for the four most recent months, insufficient resources being provided to the project, contractors not providing sufficient resources, only 67% of planned output being achieved, dropping as low as 34%, or 3,000 rooms having been supposed to be completed but only 27 having been completed, with those 27 having snags, you would call it and ask who could give that company any contract in the future. I have no reason to disbelieve what Mr. Gunning has been saying. I am just asking why we are afraid to call this as he has presented it. The board has lost control of the contract and the contractor.