Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Cabinet subcommittees have been meeting regularly to assess just this project because of concern about the contractual difficulties there. We have been paying it all our attention and we have every intention to get it built and keep the costs down. However, if I were to give false promises in terms of what the exact final cost would be, I would be guilty of the same things Deputy Doherty is accusing others of. There is a wider issue in our wider debate about construction, in housing, transport, water and a range of other infrastructure, that we in the political system start to recognise we cannot promise everything at the cheapest price to get it over the line and deal with the consequences of it later, something which parties of all colours and shades do. We have to start being realistic about the likely cost of various projects.

We can and will learn from this as an example.

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