Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to do so. As I said to the Deputy, publicly in the Dáil and elsewhere, I am absolutely committed. The priority needs to be on bypasses around the country, such as Castlemartyr and Killeagh, in places that are choked with through traffic. That is the first priority. To be honest, from my side, the funding is provided there. I am just as keen as the Deputy to get that feasibility study done. The only thing I will be asking the local authorities, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and others is whether we can accelerate and deliver it as quickly as we can.

On the other two projects, I expect Ringaskiddy to be able to go to tender very shortly. The Deputy is right; we cannot move the docks out of Cork city and Tivoli until we get that. That is going through the planning system and is due to go to the tendering system. I expect that to happen.

On the question of why it is the Adare project versus others, it was through planning. Going back to what I said earlier, the biggest obstacle or problem we have is the Deputy's frustration with the length of time in terms of the permitting, planning and design process. It is the same in all road and public transport projects. We have a spending code and the development of projects is unacceptably slow. We have to accelerate. I do not blame any one engineer or official, but we have created a system that is not quick in terms of delivering infrastructure.