Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Confidence building is really a matter for speculation at this stage. The time for confidence building was some time before now to ensure that the contract moved smoothly to its natural conclusion. We have come to and gone past that by virtue of reference to the works that are still outstanding, Covid, which was an interruption, and so on. I am concerned about references being made to the courts. I accept the courts can be the final adjudicators all of the time but it is not in the interests of the State, the Department, the HSE, the children or the parents of children throughout the country to have these matters fought out in court. It is the ultimate place to go but it is in the interest of the children, the clients and their parents, the HSE and the Department that we resolve these matters to the best of our ability in the shortest possible time. Could we do that, with the will to succeed, in the time that is left? Yes or no?