Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the event of it going through an entirely independent planning process, both the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform set the ceilings on each Department. However, this must go through a completely independent planning process. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is quite correct in that it has been seriously investigated by the council, which identified nine potential sites. As I said in my reply, at each stage of that process, local consultations took place. If this comes through the independent planning process, the job of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is to provide the funding to make it happen.

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