Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Given that the planning process is under way for the North-South project, submissions or observations in respect of the application for planning approval may be made to An Bord Pleanála during the ten-week period of statutory public consultation which begins today. It is open to the Deputy and members of the public to make submissions on that planning application for consideration by An Bord Pleanála. I am not aware of the discussion that took place this morning at the committee but I am aware of some deliberations on this by the committee on a previous occasion, because the Deputy raised it in the House on the previous occasion. I do not wish to trespass into the engineering issues, not being an expert in them, but the question of feasibility, in other words whether it is physically possible to do something, is one issue, and whether it is the correct approach to take is another. It may be possible but it might not necessarily be the optimal approach. I offer that distinction between the two different approaches to the same issue.

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