Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

Having been in government for 17 of the past 20 years, I can understand there was no sense of urgency from the Deputy's party. To be perfectly clear, there have been several discussions in the Departments of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and Environment, Community and Local Government. As I stated in the original reply, I am working with the respective Ministers, Deputies Rabbitte and Hogan. The Department of Finance also is very interested in this project and a Cabinet sub-committee will deal with it. I intend to have this in place as soon as possible.

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