Mr. Paul Reid:

As Mr. Canavan has said, the executive management team yesterday discussed the strategic assessment review and we are recommending it on to the board for agreement. The process after that is a detailed design business case and that must go to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform through the Department and the Minister. It is in the hundreds of millions of euro so it will need the approval of the Government to proceed. We want to expedite this in the quickest possible timeframe with the available funding we have in our capital programmes.

I cannot commit right now that we will have the planning application in. There must be pre-planning discussions, and these have been happening at the local level at which these happen. Formal pre-planning must be engaged with before commencing the planning process. We need to get the business case through Government approval. That is the next step.