Mr. David Gunning:

As we said earlier, we are not providing any definitive update on costs in this meeting. However, I assure the committee that all the costs that are being incurred are subject to a continuous review by the development board. The development board and our board exercise a great deal of scrutiny on that. We have shared various cost updates and information with the Department of Health. The Department has used the National Treasury Management Agency to advise it on the reviews of what we have done. We also provide this information to the HSE, that has recently taken on KPMG in a project assurance role to advise it. I assure the Deputy all the costs that we incur are subject to a great deal of scrutiny and we will not in any sense allow the costs to get out of control. It is important to mitigate. The biggest mitigation we can do currently is to get the project completed as soon as possible and that is our primary objective.