Mr. Robert Watt:

Do I accept that? There is a serious debate to be had on this, which we have had before at this committee and the Joint Committee on Health. The normal contract we go with is a fixed-price contract. It was decided in 2015 or 2016 that that type of contract would not have led to any bidders for this project and that a two-stage process, where works were undertaken and as those works were being done, design would be finalised and we would go from a draft stage to more a more complete design and then tender for the project, would be followed. Mistakes were made in the implementation of that, which we set out previously around how that was operationalised. Do I think the decision to do a two-stage process was fundamentally flawed and wrong? I do not think the decision-----