Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Surely the chief executive of the National Transport Authority has authority over Transport Infrastructure Ireland, in the sense the NTA has to drive the strategic plan, which is stopping the sprawl, getting back to the core, building public transport and, critically, walking and cycling because that is the forgotten solution. Why is it that TII, and it seems from the body language that TII was letting the NTA in and the NTA was not the authority? If we really want to be authoritative around the strategic decision, the NTA should take the authority and use it in the allocation of resources and take it away from some of these Dublin approach road projects and put it into the core where we need the engineers now.