Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government has not been applying. There has been no application to the new Juncker fund from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, which is disappointing. The Italians, for example, availed of €600 million from the fund for the provision of a railway line. The Poles also availed of the fund and used the moneys to improve existing infrastructure and rolling stock. There is an opportunity to use the fund and, as captain of the ship in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Minister should be pushing this agenda to avail of funding to accelerate investment in public transport.