Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

Does the Minister agree that, from the point of view of a Government decision on tenders, a bad conference centre is worse than no conference centre and if proper public transport facilities are not in place, it is better to shelve the project than build a bad conference centre? Given the recent revelations about the millions of taxpayers' money squandered by this Government on infrastructural projects such as roads, will the Government give a commitment that any tenders will be tightly fixed in terms of price and cost with penalties incurred for cost overrun?

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