James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before we go there, we need a little more detail. How can the OPW justify the fact that nine and a half years after the work got under way, a sod had not even been turned on the project? We need to know the reason. I am genuinely not trying to trip the OPW up. I just cannot understand how those comments could have been made to public representatives at municipal district level in 2014 but then we fast forward nine years nothing had been done. There is now a bill probably just shy of €100 million in damages to the State, private businesses, homeowners and insurance. We merit a better answer than that.