Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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That is all fine and admirable and no one has a difficulty with that. However, the two questions relating to this issue remain. Could the interests of the industry, the board's bank balance and ultimately the taxpayer been better protected if Mr Neilan had taken the advice of the engineer and the solicitor to include the fill in the contract? Second, when that failed to happen and was not done, had the draft side letter on the fill, which was separate to the contract, drawn up on 29 April been signed, the board would at least have had some protection. The fact that neither of these things was done resulted in the board having to procure, at a cost, commercial fill.