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

I will move on to capital projects in general and the time the Department takes from making a decision to proceed with a capital project to getting it through planning and the appointment of contractors and finalised. In my constituency, for instance, we had a project which went on for eight years. A huge amount of additional money had to be paid by the Department as a result of that delay.