Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The development board has been before the committee several times, as the Minister will be aware, and it has appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts several times. Both committees have been utterly frustrated for a long time, because every time the board came to speak to us, its members were throwing their hands in the air and seemed completely helpless. There was a stand-off between BAM and the board and nothing was happening to break that logjam. They were before the Joint Committee on Health two weeks ago and were here previously in July last year and it seemed that no progress had been made in the intervening period. That is why it is so difficult to understand why there was no political intervention at an earlier stage to break the logjam. Significant time and, presumably, cost have been lost as a result.

I will ask the Minister about his meeting with Royal BAM Group. What exactly was the upshot of that meeting?