Mr. Tom Costello:

To return to EU procurement rules, they are very clear in terms of pre-qualification, bidding and how one selects the preferred bidder. We do not have discretion in that. We cannot say, perhaps, how somebody is thinking. One cannot use that discretion. The rules are very clear. We do not have the discretion one might have if one was doing a project of a smaller scale that was not bound by EU procurement rules.

The tender figure from BAM was €640 million and we have now reached a position where, as we go forward and seek to complete the project by 2022, we have a programme and cost certainty on a figure of €890 million. The €640 million at tender stage excludes VAT of 13.5% and the €890 million also excludes VAT. As John Pollock mentioned, that is one of the figures that make up the €1.433 billion.