Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)

I thank Mr. Cussen very much.

For the benefit of the committee, before the witnesses came in, I omitted to say one thing. We received a lot of correspondence from the Department of public expenditure, Uisce Éireann, the Department of Transport, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority. I do not think members will have had time to absorb it. That is the reason we did not have a discussion on it today. The report we will issue in the week the Dáil gets up will incorporate that. I have asked members to have a look at the documents they have a particular interest in and when it comes to amendments to the report, if there is something they wish to add from the correspondence, we will incorporate some of it when we issue the draft report. It would take the rest of the evening if we were to have a detailed discussion on that today, so we will come back to it as part of the draft report.

I wish to put one observation on the record in response to Mr. Mullan. It relates to the percentage of approvals he outlined. He said 28% were confirmed by the board and 48% were granted with variations or alterations to the authority's decision on the conditions. Does that mean approximately 76% of projects are approved, some with amendments and others as they came through?