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

Are there lessons to be learned about taking a more robust approach in advance of taking on a project that did not end up progressing? If we start to look at projects that have started - the metro is a case in point, as is the interconnector - and where money has been spent in advance but it then does not proceed, some of the work is still usable and some is not because it will have to be repeated. Sometimes it will happen but it needs to be avoided if at all possible because we are getting nothing for a very large amount of money.