Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Or toads, as Senator Coghlan said this morning. I welcome a more accelerated method of obtaining planning approval for projects while allowing proper regard for heritage. Absurdities occurred in the case of some of the main roads. The Taoiseach referred in the Dáil to people swinging from trees, the tree ambushers on the N11. We will have to take proper account of people's reservations but surely not to that extent where major projects have been held up for two or three years because there was supposed to be an endangered species. What about the citizens of the land who will become the endangered species if we do not get moving on these physical infrastructural problems?