Mr. Morgan Lyne:

My experience of CPOs on the south Kerry greenway is not good. The south Kerry greenway was first proposed by South Kerry Development Partnership in 2011. Kerry County Council took it over in 2014 and it held meetings locally in all the different areas. I attended a meeting in Kells. Before ever coming out to meet landowners, the council engineer said at that meeting "if we do not get it by agreement, we will go for a CPO". That was like a red rag to a bull. It went belly up from there. In 2015, Kerry County Council took a vote on the CPO. Many landowners were there on that occasion and we did not want it to go for a CPO at that stage. We wanted it to appoint a negotiator on both sides so a route could be agreed. I was not opposed to the greenway, but I was totally opposed to the CPO because it has ripped the community apart.