Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will go back to what I was saying earlier on. The budget availability will be constrained for the next few years so a smaller number of projects will be advanced and this is what the debate and discussion on the NDP focused on. Rather than saying certain projects would be scrapped and certain other projects would be going ahead it was decided that it would be far better to say we would advance projects, subject to budget capabilities and the national planning framework prioritisation. It is not to say that if a project does not get that further advancement or development it is gone forever and a day. A lot of work has been done on various projects and that work will still be there and could still be availed of. In the immediate future we will have to concentrate on a smaller number of projects because of budget limitations and because we have a huge amount of work we need to do on the public transport side.