Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Okay. The tender was won at a cost of €46 million.

The bill that was submitted was for €58 million, a cost overrun of more than 25%. There was actually a court case about it. BAM said in the course of the court case that the €12 million overrun was down to an arithmetic error. Is the Minister concerned by the fact that this major construction company was linked to cost overruns of a major character in not one, not two, but at least three major State projects? Why does this company keep getting lucrative State contracts? Does the Minister not believe this underlines the case for nationalisation and the establishment of a State construction company to eliminate the for-profit element? Those are my questions.

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