Mr. Fred Barry:

It cannot be stopped in that the contractor is entitled to submit claims in respect of anything it thinks appropriate. There is a process under the contract for dealing with these. The claims are finally determined by the employer's representative, who has to determine in a binding manner whether the claims have any validity and, if they do, to what extent and what the implications are. Only one of these claims so far has gone through that process and the determination was that it was unfounded and there were no additional moneys due. However, it is the first of what will be a long sequence of such claims from now until the end of the project.