Mr. Fred Barry:

Fortunately, or unfortunately, the project is so advanced that to do something like changing the facade, revisit the materials, or even the architectural style, would effectively mean stopping the project and construction works for a couple of years and starting again and would involve going through the whole planning process. The facade the Deputy mentioned, for example, is on order by the main contractor and is being fabricated at the moment. We are beyond the point where examination and change of that sort can bring any reduction in costs.

That does not deny the possibility to make some changes that will reduce costs. Those are being made at the moment. The engineers and architects are going through the design with a fine toothcomb and where small changes can be made that do not affect functionality and that would not put us in an infringement of the planning conditions, they are being made. I may have said previously - I am unsure if it was earlier at this meeting - that the savings that will come out of this while significant in personal terms, they will not be significant in the context of the overall cost of the project. We are too far down the road to do anything like that.