Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This individual obviously felt empowered by senior managers to act. I do not want to personalise it to an individual, but whoever the person was at the level of principal officer felt very comfortable in signing off a project of this size without any recourse to senior managers?

As regards making sure that will not happen again, the OPW has put some limit in place. It is still a hefty enough amount of money - €200,000. In Mr. Conlon's meetings with the Minister of State since this story broke in the media and since Mr. Conlon tells us he himself became aware of it, has the Minister of State advised him that he wanted action to be taken? Did he specify any particular action? Did he ask Mr. Conlon to itemise what action he himself would take on foot of this?