Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We can do some work in parallel. When we make the submission for state aid approval, the clock does not have to stop. I expect and will want to go to tender at the end of the year. I do not believe we will have to stop or pause the timetable in order to wait for the response to the state aid application. I hope to make the application mid-year, perhaps in the summer, and in the meantime drive on towards the tender process which I hope we will be able to commence in December. That is my aspiration. One does not have to stop the other.