Mr. Pat Keating:

In regard to the overall Government hierarchy, there has been a huge evolution in it, in the past 12 months. There is the cross-departmental task force, chaired by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Under that sits the port co-ordination group which has responsibility for the port delivery piece.

From the point of view of port infrastructure and the Shannon Foynes Port Company, in our engagement with the Department of Transport, there is certainly a prioritisation there of projects for the port infrastructure which we have identified. I am not saying that this is exclusively for us but we feel it and it is clear.

The other important pieces are the designed maritime area plans, DMAPs which are currently under consultation. There is a timeline for those to be completed. We are hoping that will be the case and there is no reason that timeline will not be met. That is important because under the Acts, the maps need to be evaluated against these DMAPs. The map is the first milestone, so to speak, which then opens the door for maritime area consents, MACs, particularly for the Atlantic and the phase 1 projects which were outside of that regime.