Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have reviewed both opening statements, and what I found difficult to accept was this idea that there was a level of benign incompetence that happened here and that we should accept that a bunch of bad decisions were made by people who were acting in good faith.

There was a deliberately manufactured sense of haste in both of these cases. They were brought to the governing authority with the idea that action must be taken immediately because the monorail is moving on if quick action is not taken. Have we asked and answered the basic question: qui bono? Who benefited from this? I find it difficult to accept that these were just bad decisions. Nothing I have seen in the opening statements begins to identify the motivating force behind this.