Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am glad that the Deputy put in the questions because I think if she or I were doing this, we would have it done more quickly, to be honest with the Deputy. When I started looking at this, it has been going on since 9 September 2003. That is when the Department requested Galway County Council to purchase the land. This went through a CPO process. I will not go into it but the Deputy knows the story better than I do. My goodness me, it is taking a long time.

As a Department, we are engaging regularly with Galway County Council. We have been in touch with the HSE and we are engaging with them to move this on because I know that the Chief State Solicitor's office has said that it will have a six-week turnaround. I will try to keep the pressure on and I encourage the Deputy to keep putting in questions and I will keep answering them. I will keep the pressure on from my side but I would also say to the Deputy to keep the pressure on Galway County Council because we have to move this on because I hate to see these things taking so long. We will keep at it and, hopefully, we will get it moved on over the summer.

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