Mr. Garret Doocey:

Regarding expenditure to date, approximately €70 million has been spent from 2018 until the end of September or the start of October. I cannot recall the exact cut-off point. The overall project cost is under consideration as we await receipt of the revised preliminary business case. We will bring that matter to Government in the context of decision gate one. As we stated earlier, decision gate one is not approval to proceed but it is approval to go to the statutory planning system. The costs which we will use to benchmark the success of the project will be at decision gate three, when we come out of the planning system. We have absorbed any of the possible changes to the scope or route of the project that may come out of the planning process. We go back to the Government at that point and state what cost and delivery schedule against which we will benchmark the project, and the benefits which we intend to realise from the delivery of the project and against which the project should be measured.