Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Minister told us that the public transport company challenges were something that exercised the attention of the Department on an hourly, never mind a daily, basis. He then told us that the management has a role to play in regard to the efficiency of the company. Can he outline to us where he thinks savings will be made in the context of those challenges in order to free up sufficient resources to meet the kind of demands that will be made in regard to the industrial relations issues that are currently in front of us?

I refer to the strategic framework investment plan, which the Minister mentioned in the context of rail. What settlement assumptions have been made for that? Are we talking about balancing regional development or assuming that the type of development will continue to be as it was in the past?