Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If all those projects are listed in the CFRAM programme, and I assume nearly all of them are, that means that this Government and, I believe, future Governments will be committed to their delivery. I think the things that are more likely to cause a shift as to when they will happen are the tendering and planning processes for them and the number of different stakeholders who, quite correctly, want to share their views on projects such as these and the knock-on impact that has. In my experience of dealing with these matters, and this may be the case for the Deputy as well, those are the issues that tend to cause the most prolonged delays to projects, as he will have heard in the exchange I had with a number of other Deputies earlier. I do not anticipate, however, that the programme for Government would lead to the detail of such projects being changed in any way.

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