Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Acting Chair and Senator Byrne. I will certainly bring back to the Minister the Senator's request for a meeting. I have no doubt that she will facilitate him in that regard. What jumps out of the script that I just read into the record is the overreliance on the word "wayleaves". It is incumbent on the Department of Education and its planning team to knuckle down and to work with the various stakeholders to take that word off the table. On reading that, the hold-up is not just about the feasibility, it also relates to the wayleave. When one gets into the legal aspect, sometimes people somehow manage to put a full stop after absolutely everything. It is up to the Department to remove the wayleave from the equation. Hopefully, the Senator will begin to see progress at that point.