Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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The question I posed was whether, in Mr. Watt's considered opinion, this project represents value for money. I do not know that we have anything on which to benchmark that in that we have no knowledge in this regard. We have an estimate that Mr. Watt says will not be the final estimate. He cannot give us the final estimate. I will not get into all that because he has already said that is where it stands.

The commercial sensitivity worries me. I will have to be straight up. It seems to be a bit of a smokescreen. The Minister, Deputy McGrath, said that the vast majority of contractors' claims had been deemed overinflated. If we are to defend this robustly, as the Minister says, how many of these overinflated claims are currently before the High Court?