John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)

In terms of the absence of a cost-benefit analysis and the failure to have a sponsoring authority, this needs to come to a conclusion, one way or another. We cannot allow it to go on indefinitely exposing the taxpayer to substantial costs. The fact that it is not contained in the NDP, which goes up to 2040, and that no Department looked to take this on or become the sponsoring authority is quite concerning. I do not expect the Department of public expenditure to have specific information here, but we have been given a figure for the costs, which are €4.27 million to date. I am also conscious of other Departments providing grant funding to the centre. Does the Department of public expenditure have that level of information, including the departmental grant funding?