Mr. Glenn Carr:

The developments themselves are going into a planning process. They need to get through planning as quickly as we do. There are many positive things about the planing process that are in favour of Rosslare. We have had expert consultants in. There is no reason we cannot get through the planning process in six to nine months. As I said earlier, we have a foreshore licence. We will be submitting our maritime area consent, MAC, as soon as we can. At the same time, we are doing something different in Rosslare. We are doing the design and tender specification in parallel with the planning. Some people might say that is high risk but we simply cannot afford to wait to go through planning and only then consider design and build-out. Once we receive planning permission, we will go straight into construction, which will be a 12- to 18-month build. We will have the facility ready by the end of 2026. That is aligned. We are in conversation with all of the developers. If I have that facility ready in 2026, will I have a queue of activities ready to go? Possibly not.

It is probably likely to be into 2027. The other thing about these developments is we are going to start by building the berths and then we will start adding on the land. We do not need the 22 ha straight away; we need it in the coming years. I reassure everybody here that Rosslare Europort will deliver the ORE national hub and we will be ready for the developers in phase 1.