Mr. Michael Nolan:

We are obviously hearing a very clear message here today, from all of the groups, Chairman. It is crystal clear from all sides of the standing and the value to the community of the schools and of these facilities, and the impact that this emerging preferred route will have on these valuable facilities.

I hear also that time is of the essence in arriving at clarity for the clubs and the schools to find an alternative solution. We will give an absolute commitment to work on this very closely over the coming weeks, to strive for a solution taking on board all of the views we have heard here today.

Deputy Lahart asked if we would appear before the committee and of course we will appear before the committee, if we are asked and invited. We will be happy with any further engagement that the committee deems necessary.

As Ms Graham said, with an infrastructural project of this size, there will always be red flags. We are trying to find solutions where we have the minimum number of red flags. During the development of the environmental impact statement and the environmental impact assessment, we will be going to great lengths to see what the impacts are and how we can mitigate those impacts.

We give a full commitment to come back here again, but also in the next number of weeks to develop alternative solutions and bring them back to the committee.