Ms Joan Curry:

I will deal with the first question on the NIFTI and the SFILT. Both SFILT and NIFTI are used in the analysis of the projects that are presented as solutions to transport challenges. It is at the stage that a solution is being presented and how that gets analysed in terms of them progressing into the project gates and through the project system. It is a very particular tool. In drafting the national development plan and the review, we are looking at it from a broader context. We are not into the detail at present where the specific costs or the individual analysis will be, especially when we are looking at ranges of potential solutions to the challenges that are being presented. As the projects come for further analysis, the mechanism of the day as approved by Government will be used to analyse and then progress it through the public spending code gates and so on.

Regarding the review element of the national development plan that we are currently looking at, on a broad range we are checking to see whether the wider range of objectives or priorities as stated in the draft NIFTI would or could be met. There is no suggestion that they are in or out. It is just used as a broad tool. The priorities in both SFILT and NIFTI are being advanced. Therefore, directionally they are still the same and we are confident that they are aligned from that perspective.