Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

What really concerns me is that there is a serious institutional gap, as can be seen with regard to the derogation. I do not see where the learnings are. While we are discussing this as a real-time project, there is another project that is being dealt with on this list which is being dealt with internally in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. What we are hearing is there is a possibility of the €500 million that was outlined when it was announced becoming several billion. How can we have any confidence that there is control in respect of matters when they are announced?

We are not saying these projects are not needed. If only a particular amount of money is available, however, the way they are proceeded with might be very different. The two-stage process was probably because of the site selected. Would that have happened if that had been a greenfield site?