Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. The shorthand for that is a cost overrun, I suppose. Last week we were advised that €90 million of the overrun will be incurred due to the project running over time by nine months. Every month it runs over, that is a cost of €10 million which, for the avoidance of any doubt, is €320,000 a day. That may seem like a small amount given the billions we are talking about, but it is really not. What are the funding implications if this project is not completed on time? The deadline has been moved on more than one occasion, as Mr. Sullivan will be aware. There is absolutely no disputing it. The deadline is fluid, the cost appears to be very fluid as well, as indeed does the oversight and everything else that goes along with it. What are the funding implications-----