Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Sorry, can I interrupt in that context? In the Department's submission, in its letter of 18 February, Mr. Spratt states that the outcome will be apparent in the Department's own forthcoming submission in the following manner and that the impact of the Department’s draft sectoral strategy, the NIFTI, will be set out in detail.

It makes no reference to the strategic investment framework for land transportation. The question Deputy Carey was asking, which others, including Deputy O'Rourke, and I were also asking, was whether the national development plan, with its many key projects, could be revised based on the Department's use of the NIFTI document prior to the NIFTI plan going out for public consultation and prior to its being adopted formally by the Government. Could the national development plan be reviewed and finalised prior to NIFTI becoming Government policy, yet with NIFTI being a key, dominant feature of the Department's assessment of projects?