Ms Marie Mulvihill:

The second public consultation was completed in the summer. The submissions from that were sent to our independent environmental consultants. We continuously engage with them and they have completed their assessment of the submissions and are formalising and finalising their assessment of the overall scheme to make a recommendation to the Minister. This has not yet come to us from the consultants. When it does, it will be submitted to the Minister to either confirm, refuse or alter. We have yet to receive the final overall recommendation from the environmental consultants on the scheme. They review the submissions, examine the overall scheme and the environmental impact assessment report, and then make that recommendation to the Minister encompassing both.