Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I accept responsibility for the challenges with this project. I will explain why. If I was coming in here today and the project was ahead of schedule and €200 million under budget I would be taking credit for that, and so would the Deputy if he was the Minister. The good has to be taken with the bad in government. We put experts in place and so did my predecessors. They were good, decent hard-working people with expertise. Something clearly went wrong. The PwC report has given us an indication of where that might lie. The board needs to reflect very seriously on that, including on the contracts it may have had.