Mr. David Gunning:

I remember well Deputy Cullinane asking me the last time whether there be scope for us engaging to seek to find a way forward and I answered that in the positive. I can say that there has been considerable engagement with the contractor in exploring what are generally referred to as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to try to find a resolution to the difficulties.

Our objectives going into this are to get certainty on time, in other words, when we are getting our hospital, and certainty on cost so we can tell the committee this is the timeline and, as time drives cost, this is the cost.