Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Mr. Mulligan knows my concerns about the make-up of NBI, the structure of its board and so on. We cannot undo that now. I have articulated some of that again today. It has been allowed to retrospectively reduce the original target from 8,000 to zero passed in January 2021. It missed its original targets, reaching half, at best, by the end of this year. It has negotiated remedial targets, which it has also missed. Mr. Mulligan says it will meet its negotiated remedial targets, but there is a question about that. It got the Department to review 39 performance indicators that were signed in 2019. We are less than three years into this, which is a short time. All the Department has done is impose a sanction of €134,000, which NBI might get back, in the context of a contract where the taxpayer will potentially stump up €2.7 billion. I am looking at this in the round. Mr. Mulligan confirmed that another €100,000 will be levied. I understand he cannot look into the future. When he looks at those five or six facts, it looks to me as if the taxpayer and State are being swung around.