Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy has asked an important question, and I will have to check what conversations were held with PwC. I did not have any direct conversations with it. I accepted the Dáil motion as I believed it was an honest attempt by the Deputy to ensure that we had robust terms of reference, and I accepted a number of his changes to and suggestions on the terms of reference. I have been listening to the Deputy commenting on this a bit in the last day or so, and I do not accept that we can presume that PwC did not look at this. It says on page 8 of the report that to take any other decision would have cost more. I am not sure that we can presume that PwC did not consider the effect of moving to a different site. I will be meeting with the authors of the report in the coming days to tease that out further, and I will come back to the Deputy with an answer.