Ms Anne Graham:

From the perspective of the National Transport Authority, we have not quite entered into the strict planning process at the moment. What we have been involved in is much of the pre-planning work in terms of BusConnects and TII with MetroLink and Iarnród Éireann with DART+. I suppose it follows on from Dr. Torney's points on getting buy-in from the public in terms of planning. We have put a lot of time and effort into the public consultation around these major transformational programmes, particularly BusConnects. A really significant amount of effort has gone into that engagement, which we hope will result in a very effective formal planning process. While it does take time to do that, we think it is of great value and benefit to any transformational programme and it has been highly significant in respect of the BusConnects Dublin project. We will be applying the same approach in respect of any major infrastructural project in other cities.