Ms Oonagh Buckley:

The Department has not shown me any issue about funding. We have to go through the process of getting approvals, sanctions and all that good stuff. That is part and parcel of what we have to do, but I am concerned as to whether people are available with the skills we are looking for. In the short time I have been on An Bord Pleanála we have had to go to the UK to recruit a noise expert to help with the application around Dublin Airport. That is part and parcel of what we have had to do and will continue to have to do. Ireland is a small economy. It has a limited number of such developments, so we will have to go outside the country on occasion to get the necessary skills.