Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick:

It takes between five and seven years to get to the point of submitting it for approval in the first place. There is then the oral hearing, however long that takes, and the planning process to get approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála. Once it is approved, and there is no judicial review, we prepare the contract documents and go to tender, subject to funding, of course. It takes about a year and a half after the approval process to actually get through the tender process and get to the point where you would have a contract on the ground.