Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I cannot give that commitment to the Deputy in this situation, and I do not think he expects me to. A lot of progress has been made. I will not say that it is ungrateful, because I do not expect gratitude from anybody for anything, but it should be recognised that TII has been allocated progressive and increasing amounts of money. I will repeat that €4 million was allocated to the scheme in 2014, €5 million in 2015, €3.8 million in 2016, and €14 million this year. The commitment is there. As far as I can see, and the Deputy can contradict me, we are only talking about the timing. He is talking about something happening almost immediately while I am talking about 2020. I cannot tell him that I will advance that at this stage, but I am not going to reduce the commitment we have made to this particular project in any way.

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