Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Consultants have been appointed for the Ballybofey-Stranorlar project and a start-up meeting has been held with the OPW and Donegal County Council. They have appointed consultants for the bundle and that is a start. Some €157,500 was approved in 2018, which the Deputy has details for, but the total budget for Ballybofey-Stranorlar is €1.92 million and the total number of properties is 59. We are only going through tranche 1 of the CFRAM and Donegal town is in tranche 2, as the Deputy knows. This is a slow process. The Deputy is right that we will get to Donegal town and it will be in tranche 2. In Lifford, the consultants are at design stage and the public exhibition stage will be early next year. There is a cross-Border element to this project, as the Deputy knows. The river is the Border.