Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not in any way concerned about the timelines but it is important to be upfront and blunt about them, which I have been in every visit I have made to a location that has been chosen as an FET college of the future. These are multi-year projects. I cannot say whether it will be four, five or six years but that is the range of years we are talking about. People in Castlebar and Mayo will see progress and there will be an ability to provide regular updates and the like. I, too, pay tribute to Paddy McGuinness who has returned to college and is undertaking a course there.

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