Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

Professionals, including Tim Brick and his team of engineers, are working on this project. Brown and Root are the international supervisors of the work. The Minister is not supervising the project in person. Of course accidents should not happen but minor ones do. I am sure it can be put right. It is a matter of timing. I do not believe work on the tunnel has stopped as a result. The experts regard it as something which will be fixed in the coming weeks. It is not putting the tunnel in jeopardy or otherwise. Of course, people should be careful when using jackhammers.