Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Deputy that the meeting on Friday is important. There should be a degree of honesty and cards put on the table because the community deserves nothing less than to find out whether it is happening. I will not say anything more about what may happen after the meeting. So many good groups and people are working on the project. I met them on site when the Deputy invited me to visit it. They all want the project to happen, but we live in the real world too and perhaps there are reasons it is not happening. However, honesty is required. I am making a personal appeal to the contractor to meet the community head-on for the first time and be as honest as possible. There have been too many false dawns and expectations have been heightened. It is an issue for the entire constituency and other Deputies have raised the issue here. I thank Deputy Peter Burke for keeping it alive. Let us see what happens on Friday and I hope that, with a degree of honesty, we will make progress.

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