Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I will start with our functions. We are responsible for strategic planning of transport across the greater Dublin area, to secure the provision of public transport infrastructure and to provide public transport services on that infrastructure. We have other responsibilities, including taxi regulation and vehicle clamping but I will leave those to one side for this meeting. In securing public transport infrastructure, the legislation is geared so that we do the strategic planning and are then required to implement heavy rail projects as far as possible through Irish Rail, light rail and metro projects through Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and other projects through the local authority system. We are meant to do the strategic planning and give it oversight but generally leave the delivery to other agencies, although there are exceptions.