Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes but we are still waiting on some of them. We are talking about an emergency situation, and I accept all of that. The point is that Mr. Conlon, to be fair, raised it with the officials and told them to hold on a second. He said these were suboptimal sites and it would be extremely hard to deliver what they wanted to deliver. They told him this was an emergency. He said the sites were suboptimal, that it would take a lot longer and cost a lot more. This is not a question for Mr. Conlon but a question for the officials. Mr. Conlon was ignored in relation to that. We now have a situation where he is front of this committee explaining modular units, which cost €442,000, that nobody can stand over.

I want to raise a few quick issues. I am unsure if the Leas-Chathaoirleach already touched on them because I came in late for other reasons. I am aware that in the instance of Miesian Plaza, the OPW overpaid rent to the tune of €10 million because it used the wrong standard and it should have used international property measurement standard 3, which was introduced in 2016, but it failed to do so. Have there been any similar incidents where there was a failure to use the correct standard, resulting in an overpayment of rent?