Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Where does Mr. Llewellyn see his role or what is his plan around due diligence? It is a requirement to deliver on certain projects that are absolutely necessary within the national development plan, even if we are talking about the road network. That needs to be combined with trying to deal with climate change, carbon budgets and all the rest of it.

The difficulty on one level was highlighted to me by the references to TII's plans for the next ten years in regard to roads. I understand €5.1 billion is allocated for this purpose, with €1 billion to be spent in the first half of the decade. The problem with this is it leaves the heavy lifting in the building sense to be done in the second part of the decade, which is when we also will need to do the heavy lifting on reducing emissions and all of that. It is a question of how to wed the two. This difficulty is probably why some people believe that while the NDP may be an impressive-looking document, delivering it might be another matter. It is something of a difficult sell to a couple of different constituencies.