Mr. Derek Tierney:

The Government approved the overall capital budget with an increase of €446 million. That was to recognise the recommendations in the PwC report of 2019. It was to cover off a number of headings including inflation and inflation recovery, costs incurred by the project, to include, up to that point, any true costs the contractor was entitled to claim and will claim, and then lastly to cover off the overhead cost to augment the capability of the paediatric hospital development board.