Mr. Michael Nolan:

The vision for public transport infrastructure is determined by the National Transport Authority rather than TII. We execute its vision, as required.

We have been working very closely with the executive team which is developing the national planning framework. We have had a number of consultations with it and provided it with data, as requested. We look forward to the finalisation of the framework which will inform TII and the Department of the pipeline of projects with which we will need to run towards planning in the coming years. It is worth mentioning that we have a very thin pipeline of schemes to be included in the ten-year plan or any plan subsequent to the current one. A total of 13 schemes are mentioned in the current capital investment plan. That hollows out all of the schemes we have ready with An Bord Pleanála approval. The schemes in planning are high-risk. They are major and very complex projects which will take some time to wind their way through the planning consent stages. We have made submissions to the Department to run more major schemes through to planning. We await finalisation of the national planning framework to see which of these schemes meet the company's objectives as set out.