Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As it happens, the question the Deputy just asked me is more or less exactly the question I put to their chief executive, which was that BAM's UK-Ireland operation has missed its deadline 14 times and missed its deadline four times this year so why should I believe that June is not going to be the 15th missed deadline. I asked for Royal BAM to stand over that date. I said that I cannot have confidence, and I do not imagine any of us here can have confidence, in a 14th deadline. Regardless of what happens a 14th deadline would be a lot to ask anyone to simply accept on faith. I have asked Royal BAM as the parent company to stand over that date. They, needless to say, would take that very seriously. They did stand over that date. They have gone back to interrogate that in detail with their own people. I asked for a very intensive round of engagement between the board, led by Ms Ross and Mr. Gunning, the chief executive, and BAM - both Royal BAM and BAM UK and Ireland. The question Deputy Cullinane has just asked me is ultimately the core question and one I put to the chief executive-----