David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister, but he did not tell me how many inquiries about the site had been made in the past while. I was told in 2015 by the then Minister, Deputy Bruton, that there had been four significant inquiries, but these did not come to anything.

Is it not a fact that the road infrastructure deficit is the main reason the site is not being developed? Does the Minister agree with Mr. Martin Shanahan, the former head of the IDA, who told me at a committee meeting more than a year ago that this was the case and that the road needed to be upgraded? Is it not a disgrace that the project has been long-fingered or cancelled by the Government? The site has lain idle for 17 years despite millions of euro being invested in it. Given the shortage of such sites in the country, is it not time that the Government decided to upgrade the road so that the site can be developed properly?

How many inquiries have been made into the site in recent years?

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