Mr. Henry Kingston:

The question concerned the efforts to streamline the processes related to plans which are supported in the national development plan and bringing them to fruition successfully. In our case, we are currently building an €80 million container terminal in Ringaskiddy and also looking to develop the Marino Point port facility, which was previously a fertiliser plant, and to regenerate it back into an active port which would be reconnected. The current freight links, road and rail, to both these terminals are substandard. There is the idea of an interagency approach to strategise on ports location and redevelopment for the activities many of our port colleagues have mentioned, including future wind development, offshore wind, etc., and their very laudable green benefits in the future. This needs a more streamlined approach at a national and strategic level in order that when the ports are being built and delivered and facilities are being delivered, they are already connected and we do not have to wait subsequently for road connectivity to realise the full capacity of our port infrastructure, which has cost us not only a significant amount of cash but also significant effort to get through the planning processes. That was what I was referring to.