Infrastructure minister Tim Crookall has said it’s ’impossible’ to put a completion date on the prom.

At a House of Keys sitting today, Mr Crookall was asked by MHK for Douglas South Claire Christian when the works on the promenade would be finished.

Mr Crookall said: ’It’s awkward and difficult to put a completion date on it.

’It’s absolutely impossible.

’It’s not fair for the people who have lived there, work there and suffered for the last three years.

’I don’t think it would be fair on the public.’

He said he was ’hopeful’ works would be completed by the end of the year but explained it would be unlikely.