Mr. Niall Gleeson:

On the triage system, I will detail what we would like in that area. I meet the various CEOs of all the State bodies and we have the national development plan that we are trying to pull together. Our projects, that are critical for delivering all of the other schools, hospitals and housing should be prioritised within the various national bodies. That would not be too hard to do but there are things like: our water supply projects; the greater Dublin drainage, GDD, project; the infrastructure reinforcement; and MetroLink. Those kind of projects should get prioritisation through the consenting process; that is a reasonable ask and that is our request.

On the capacity for the greater Dublin area, we have said quite clearly on the wastewater side that we need the GDD project delivered, and it is crawling through the approval process. Originally we went for planning in 2018 and it got planning in 2019. It went for judicial review and it got knocked back on one issue out of 18 challenges, which was a procedural issue between An Bord Pleanála and the EPA. It has been with An Bord Pleanála for about 18 months, we were asked to revise some of our data and now we are waiting for a foreshore licence to get those data, which is about 20 buckets of sand out of Dublin Bay. It all lines up to be-----