Mr. Graham Doyle:

Yes. We spoke a great deal about electric vehicles today, as Senator O'Sullivan pointed out. We also spoke extensively about public transport not just in Dublin, in fairness, but in cities generally. The Department and Ms Graham's organisation have done substantial work on rural transport links and the local link scheme. The Deputy mentioned the latter, which is very active in County Donegal.

One statistic that is not official but emerges from some work we did several years ago is that traditionally the Department spent about 80% of its overall budget outside the greater Dublin area. Considerable investment was made in roads and rail over the years. That figure sometimes surprises people. It will decrease in the next number of years as we invest in some of the large-scale city-based transport projects. BusConnects is costed at more than €2 billion and is very much focused on Dublin and regional cities. We will also pursue projects such as the metro.