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

There were other schemes. There are a load of schemes in the station that cannot get on the train because, unfortunately, the judicial review process has a knock-on consequence. There is a finite and limited number of staff who can work on all these schemes, whether they are in the engineering or environmental elements of them. We do not have people sitting around doing nothing. All our people are tied up all the time. When the schemes run into judicial review, people do not just sit back and do nothing. They move on to the next scheme, whether it is Ennis, Limerick, King's Island, Morrison's Island, any of the ones in Kilkenny, Ballyhale, any of the ones the Minister wants, Donegal or any of them. The pipeline is continuously being filled. This year, for instance, we are moving to construction for seven schemes; Douglas, Springfield, the River Morell in Deputy Durkan's constituency, the River Dodder, Templemore, Ashbourne and Athlone, all of which are swallowing up at various stages some of what would be regarded as part of that underspend.