Ms Anne Graham:

The national development plan is Government policy. On rail, the main investment is to enure that we at least maintain the current infrastructure on a steady-state basis. The Government has put funding in place for that. Our responsibility in rail infrastructure and investment in it relates only to the greater Dublin area. We manage the capital investment for the Department in the regional cities and we undertake developing strategies for the regional cities, but we do so on a non-statutory basis. Setting policy related to rail is not our role or mandate.