Mr. Kevin Morey:

As to what we get for the €350,000, all we have to date is a non-intrusive assessment. We have had a condition survey, which involves people looking at the exterior of the weir and assessing its condition. If we are to progress a project here, there will be a significant amount of work involved in geotechnical assessment and in carrying out slip trenches through the weir to assess its structure and foundation. That will all have to feed into all of the necessary interactions with a plethora of parties who are statutory consultees or who are required to give approval for what we want to do. That whole process is both time consuming and expensive. It all feeds into the central application to An Bord Pleanála. There is consultation associated with that, which will include consultation with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Inland Fisheries Ireland, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the Office of Public Works, and so on. That is a time-consuming and costly operation. There are no two ways about it.