Ms Joan Curry:

The SIFLT and the NIFTI, as it progresses through its public consultation and, hopefully, through the Government approval phase, are the two tools that are used in the assessment of the projects when they are presented for analysis at the point in time where there are solutions being generated for a particular transport problem.

In terms of our review of the national development plan, NDP, we are looking at it more broadly. We are looking at the suite of potential solutions or projects that could address and deal with the priorities that the programme for Government, the national planning framework, NPF, and the climate action plan have set out for us in terms of targets. We have used the framework of NIFTI just as a general lens through which all of the projects are being looked at from a comparable basis. They are not being assessed in terms of progress, approval or otherwise. It is just that they are being looked at through a common lens. When the time comes for any of those projects to come on stream as solutions to a transport challenge of the time, they will progress through either SIFLT or NIFTI, depending on the point in time they come on stream. In the context of the NDP, NIFTI, which is broadly aligned from an investment priority perspective, is just ensuring that the projects from a general speech are capable of being prepared in a common filter.