Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Moloney knows what can happen if he hands something over to a consultant or a particular body to carry out work in respect of it and no timeline is put in place. I can think of situations where the management of one public body - not a local authority, but another public body - had to start asking for weekly reports from the consultants after two years in terms of the progress that was being made. This was because they twigged that no progress was being made.

Deputy Colm Burke raised a very frustrating problem. The Mountmellick scheme is obviously of major concern to me. Deputy Catherine Murphy and other Deputies are concerned. The Crossmolina scheme was referred to by Deputy Dillon. If something is handed over to outside consultants - I get the logic behind that, and Mr. Moloney has explained some of the competencies required - if a timeline is not put in place and if some kind of restrictions, for example, financial or whatever, are not put also put in place, they could drag it out forever and a day.