Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

The witnesses are all very welcome. I ask about the Royal Canal urban greenway going through my constituency of Dublin West. When I first became a councillor on Fingal County Council, there was a non-statutory public consultation. That was back in 2019. In January, 2023, my colleague, Councillor Siobhan Shovlin, had an update to say they were currently in phase 3, preliminary design, and the next stage would be the statutory process and an application was due to An Bord Pleanála in 2023. It is now late 2025 and we are still at the preliminary design stage. Why has it taken so long to progress that greenway?