Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply, which is much the same as one he delivered previously. It is depressing to see written down again that the project is in the early stages of design progression, considering we were told the planning application would be lodged before Christmas 2018, then it was to be February 2019, then May 2019 and then 2019. It is now July 2021 and the project is not progressing and there is no indication of when it will be progressing. I could not be confident from the Minister of State’s reply that a planning application would be ready this year. I hope I am proven wrong. I will certainly keep the pressure on the Minister of State and I ask him to keep pressure on his line Minister. This is an extremely important project. There is commitment to it but we need to get the planning application lodged, construction started and the project built.