Mr. Jim Casey:

I understand there were a lot of issues with the scheme. Its scale changed once it got into the early stages of design. The problem became a much bigger one. There were influences from upstream bridge structures. It became a much more complex scheme than was envisaged in the early stages. This is something that often happens with flood relief schemes. At the preliminary stage, a scheme may appear to be straightforward but when we get into the detailed analysis and design-----