Mr. Michael Nolan:

We have approval. It is back on the agenda. It is not as such a green light. It is a green light before the green light. There are works and early activities we can be doing. I will give a sense of those early activities. We will be conducting traffic studies over the next nine months to validate previous traffic surveys. The previous scheme went to An Bord Pleanála in 2010. It was pulled from An Bord Pleanála in 2011 before the board had made a decision on the scheme. All our traffic studies would have been conducted in 2008 and 2009. In almost ten years, it will have moved on and we need to review those traffic studies. We need to create a project-specific traffic model for the whole corridor between Limerick and Cork. We have to assess other transport modes, junction strategies, utilities, service locations, engage with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, and conduct ownership searches as land ownership will have changed. Land use will have changed. With the end of the milk quota, perhaps the dairy farms are bigger and there are new dairy farmers. We will have to go through all that, and that is quite important. On land use planning, what do local authorities have? We try to protect them as best we can. There may be new developments along those lines. There would be economic analysis of the potential conglomeration effects on Limerick and Cork and the environs that we will be looking at.