Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Much work is happening. How long will it take? This work was supposed to be completed and presented to the committee so that we could take a view in advance of the budget and feed into the budgetary process. Earlier it was stated that some of the work might be finished early at the start of the new year. That will feed into the process through the year so it could be June or July before the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment is ready to formulate an opinion on that work. We were being naive because we pre-empted this discussion by at least eight or nine months with our report. Perhaps our report is naive and the witnesses could explain that. Should this discussion happen 12 months from now?