David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They also said that since September 2023, BAM has, on average, achieved 64% of its planned progress. In fact, when they were before the Oireachtas committee last year, they said it was 67% so what they were telling us last week was pretty much the same information. They also told us that of the 3,128 rooms which BAM has submitted as complete to its standard, none were completed to the required standard. The Minister would have heard them say to the committee that not one single room or "space", as they put it, was completed to the required standard. The cost of the hospital, as we know, is now about €2.2 billion. The Cabinet signed off last year on €500 million of additional money to fund that €2.2 billion total cost.

Am I right on those figures?