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

There is a gigantic deficiency in this contract in terms of controls or penalties to bring this contract to a conclusion. The lack of people on site has been an ongoing problem right from the word go.

When the Government announced the extra €512 million, which is a ginormous amount of money, it said it would not be allocating any more money, but this project is not going to be completed within the lifetime of this Government. With court cases, disputes that still have to be settled and new claims that will come in, is Mr. Gunning confident there is sufficient headroom in that €512 million? Would he give us a guarantee on that? I want to hear a guarantee on that.