Mr. Peter Walsh:

In 2008 and the years immediately after, our capital programme was effectively stopped because the country did not have money. The first opportunity to get the project back onto the Government's capital plan was the mid-term review in 2017. We availed of that opportunity and we were successful in getting the project added to the plan. Nothing happened in the meantime because we could not justify the expenditure of taxpayers' money during years when there was no prospect of projects going ahead.