Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for the update. I will pick up on some of the points already made, but I will come at it from the perspective of the increase in budget that happened last year. I have raised this previously with the Minister of State and with the Minister for Transport. What prompted the tripling of the budget then? Is it the case that flags were raised and the Government responded? Was that response too late and not significant enough? Should we have increased the budget more and earlier?