Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The cost as of today is exactly what it was back in December. I do not have the exact figure in front of me but it is about €1.4 billion with additional contingencies above that, particularly around construction inflation. If there has been any change since the week before Christmas, I have not been informed of it. It is what it was then.

In terms of whether I would have signed off on it, it is impossible to answer a hypothetical question like that. One would have to know what the alternatives were, what the costs of those alternatives were-----

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