Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Lessons have most definitely been learned. Regarding the criteria for June, I will give my understanding of it. I fully accept BAM may agree or disagree with that. Where I believe we got to was that it was willing to stand over the June deadline with a proviso that there were not design changes that would reasonably delay the project. You might have very minor design changes. In fact, the information which I hope has been furnished to the committee shows that the development board has submitted changes over time. Actually, BAM has submitted slightly more changes. In a project of this complexity, there will always be minor changes. It would not be reasonable if the board or the design team were to start submitting more big changes that simply slowed the project down-----