Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said, I propose to answer a substantive question on Midleton later. The Deputy raised this issue at the Estimates meeting last week. I asked whether he, as the leader of his party, had any engagement with Cork County Council. I think his answer was "No". If he had such engagement, he would know his assertion here is totally unfair, particularly to the engineering staff of Cork County Council and to my own engineering staff, who are committed to working on a scheme. I know the Deputy is trying to create a narrative that we can somehow magic away the issues that are there in regard to planning permission, design, consent and compulsory purchase orders, CPOs.

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