Ms Anne Graham:

We also have to accept that we delivered an extension to the Luas green line, and invested more than €360 million in a major piece of public transport infrastructure that has seen very significant growth in public transport use as well. Even at a time when Ireland had difficulty in terms of investment, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport invested in that project, which has now been delivered.

We also have to invest continually in the rail infrastructure to keep it maintained and more than €200 million is invested every year in the rail service. We must keep our bus fleet within an age profile and must invest in it. Again, tens of millions of euro are invested in the fleet each year. We know that we have to radically improve our public infrastructure even more and the plans and the investment profile is there now and we must work on providing that infrastructure.