PARIS (AFP) -- A senior French politician who oversees spending on the Senate's finance committee told AFP on Monday, Oct. 23, he had "doubts" about the timing of the delivery of several Paris Olympic projects, citing the risk of "budgetary slippage" due to delays.

Senator Eric Jeansannetas, however, said there was nothing "controversial" about his report.

Work on most of the 70 or so Olympic venues is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023, including the athletes' village in Saint-Denis, the main construction site for the 2024 Games.

Solideo, the company responsible for delivering the infrastructure, has consistently reported that it is on schedule.

However, during the committee's examination of the special report on the 2024 finance bill for the "Sport, Youth and Voluntary Sector" on Tuesday, Jeansannetas referred to "risks" weighing on the timetable for the delivery of the Olympic facilities.

Last year, the budget documents stated that "most of the facilities will have been delivered by 2023", including the renovated Stade de France and Yves-du-Manoir stadium -- the hockey stadium that was also a venue for the 1924 Olympics -- as well as the basketball hub Arena Porte de La Chapelle and the marina in Marseille.

The delivery of all these facilities, with the exception of the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, has been pushed back to 2024.

"This is not reassuring," he said. "As overseer, I am simply pointing out that when there are delays, there can be budgetary slippages," he told AFP.

"But I'm not expressing any concerns, I'm simply saying that there is a risk that the budget will slip."

Solideo told AFP on Monday that there were "no delays on any of the sites to be delivered", adding that there was always a delay between the end of construction and the handover to the organizers.

"And it is this that can perhaps create confusion," the company said.

Certain sites will still be completed by the end of 2023 but only handed over two or three months later, once everything has been checked.

"There's nothing controversial about it", said Jeansannetas. "If the work is completed in the next two months, so much the better."