Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I am pretty confident that I am right about that. Half a billion extra was allocated recently to the project. I am paraphrasing when I say that the Minister said not a penny would go towards paying the contractor. Is that a substantiated statement Mr. Gunning can stand over? An extra €500-odd million has been given to close off this project and the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, said none of it would go to the contractor. Mr. Gunning is in charge of this. Can he stand over this statement that none of that money, that extra €500 million, will end up with the contractor? I will be honest; I do not think Mr. Gunning can. I would not like to put words in his mouth so I would like him to answer my question. Does he not think, and I do not want Mr. Gunning to get into politics as it is not his role, that surely some of that €500 million extra that was allocated to Mr. Gunning and his team, and I appreciate this is a very complicated project, must be based on settling what we just went through in the disputes?