Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, there are some delays in courts but there is also the complexity of these cases. As it takes up quite a bit of time before all the documentation from each side is put together, that must be taken into account. I am in no way saying anyone who wants to take a judicial review should be restricted. It is a constitutional right. However, it is about the whole process. From the time the route was decided, which I think was November 2014, it took seven years, as Mr. Walsh said it was signed off on in 2021. Surely we are able to put something in place? For instance, it was 2017 before it went to An Bord Pleanála. Why could that not have been done at an earlier stage?