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

The process means that the projects take a very long time to complete. It is the same problem when building new infrastructure and new capital projects in the health service. Mr. Nugent has said that meetings take place regularly. I contend that the solution is not regular meetings but making decisions and getting on with projects. I find the situation frustrating. Representatives of communities contact me after they have been told that a Department has confirmed that it has agreed to do certain work but the work is still not done, say, three years later because someone along the line has held up the process.