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

So the contract was not to create a bike shed that was fit for purpose, albeit massively expensive. It was to create one that was not and then had to be adjusted at the end. I am just wondering. This seems like a very good deal for the contractor at the end. Mr. Conlon was at pains to point out how detailed the plan was and the order of magnitude costing and all that stuff that went along with it. In all that detailed planning and all that detailed engagement, using the in-house or the external QSs or the in-house or the external staff, or all the qualified people or the people Mr. Conlon would say are at senior enough grades, it was not felt appropriate to make it weather-proof for winter, or somehow the OPW got surprised with the charge at the end.