David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Gunning has hit the nail on the head. The problem is we are asking what the levers are. Mr. Gunning is telling us he has all of these levers but clearly they are not sufficient. Clearly there were flaws in the contract whereby sufficient levers were not in it to allow the board, the Government and us to hold the contractor to account. What I am hearing is that we are powerless. The board has withdrawn funding before from the contractor. It has not worked. Whatever levers are there are not worth anything because they are not moving the project on. I am just making the point that there are fundamental flaws in the contract that are preventing the board from being able to hold the contractor sufficiently to account.