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

I thank the Minister of State for his reply, two small paragraphs of which related to the specific issue. I accept and always believed that planning permission would be required for this project. The Minister of State said in the answer that this would be applied for in the third quarter of this year. The third quarter is July, August and September. This is 13 July, and if the application for planning permission does not go in this month, I cannot see all that much progress being made in August because different people will be coming and going. Can we get a firm commitment that this timeframe will be adhered to, because there will be a minimum of at least three months after the application has been submitted before planning can be legally approved, and that is if there is no appeal? Therefore, we need this to keep moving forward. It will be well into next year before this building is completed. We accept that we must go step-by-step, but we need absolute confirmation that these deadlines will be adhered to.

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