Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is not waffle, it is related to what is in the report. The report highlights some projects that it describes as "abandoned". It is the case that some projects were either halted early in their life cycle or never commenced because it was decided that they were either unlikely to succeed or the situation had changed so significantly that it would be folly to proceed. Had they proceeded and had there been cost overruns, the Deputy would be criticising us for going ahead with them.

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