Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

On account of the design work. There is a full design team working on this and it is employed and paid to work these things out and to get them right. It has told me it has the process completed and intends to seek planning permission before the end of the year.

As a matter of interest for the Deputy, there are significant numbers of inquiries being made for the use of facilities that are not yet built. We have an enormous amount of bookings already for the National Conference Centre, for example. It is not completed yet, but people realise it will be.

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