Professor Eoin Reeves:

It is difficult to say, given the lack of information we have and where our expertise lies. I have read what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has proposed as a "plan Z". To a large degree, I can understand where it is coming from. Two words in the proposal that struck me are "budget led". In other words, it will be affordable. The Department has suggested that the large escalation in the costs of the project mean there will be an opportunity cost. Other projects within the national development plan will have to be forgone. That should not happen under the more modest concerns with the plan the Department has put forward.

On whether my colleague or I have specific plans or proposals, I cannot come up with something better than the Department. Dr. Palcic might like to contribute.