Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The last part of that question was going to be the first part of my question. When will this particular process be over? It has been going on for a long time.

Will the Department provide a list of all the steps that will need to be taken before we can proceed to into construction? In the context of Inis Oírr, for example, the problem that arose was that planning permission had been obtained but just when everything was ready to go, it was suddenly discovered that there was no foreshore licence. Can the Minister provide a list of all of the relevant steps in order that the community, the local politicians and the Department are clear on what is going to be involved in progressing this project? We can then look at what steps can be taken in parallel.

To a certain extent, we over-egged the business case. Effectively, this can only be done in one way in order to arrived at the desired result from a maritime point of view. Whatever that cost, it is going to have to be done. Either that or it will cost much more money to relocate the people off a dying island.

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