Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I join my colleague, Senator Ulick Burke, in calling for the Minister for Transport to attend the House to explain the massive overruns in the costs of projects under the auspices of the National Roads Authority, which is employing hundreds of consultants. How can it get it so wrong, with €9 billion in overruns? It is absolutely disgraceful. We need value for money, as has been stated by speakers on the other side of the House on several issues. In this area, however, we need an explanation from the Minister and I call on him to attend the House, if he knows where it is having been absent from it for the last few years.