Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The Chairman said that he was not critical of the process. I return to my point: I am highly critical of that process. I am really sorry. As I said, it is as though the Department and the local authorities do not seem to trust each other. If the Department seems to second-guess at every stage what I presume another arm of the Government, namely, local government, is doing, it is as though the Department thinks that although South Dublin County Council for example - I am going to use it because it is my own former council - has carried out this project and must have done all that assessment itself, we will do it all a second time and then we will do the cost assessment a second time and so on. That process makes absolutely no sense to me.