Mr. Gareth Llewellyn:

I thank the Deputy for the question. One thing we know about the future is that it will be different from where we are at the moment. Preparing for that sometimes needs different structures, skills and thinking. The most important statement is that there is always a view that roads are bad in relation to climate change, but they are not really. It is what is on the roads that matters, because that is where most - not all - of the emissions come from. At some point in the future, we will still need roads. We will need them for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. A new hydrogen HGV is being launched by a company called Tevva. These vehicles are coming, and that it is a good thing, except from a congestion perspective. Obviously, we still need to deal with congestion and the impact it has on the economy.

TII still has an important role in ensuring that the road network, in particular, supports the NDP. Looking at the priorities, transport supports virtually all of them. Whether it is strengthening rural communities, regional accessibility or sustainable mobility, transport is part of all of those. Making sure that at any one point in time, one designs infrastructure to achieve the future outcomes as well as to tackle today's problems will be a factor for TII, without a doubt.

I think I mentioned in one of my previous answers that even today, TII has a preference that when it is planning new infrastructure, a greenway is part of it already. A big challenge there is making sure that whatever greenway is introduced as part of a change to the road network is linked up with existing greenways. There is no point in it being isolated from everything else. It needs that joined-up approach, as part of the national cycle network, etc. That is really important. When planning new infrastructure, TII looks at what proportion of that infrastructure should be for personal vehicles and what should be for public transport. Again, that is part of the overall planning process that TII will go through.

I cannot say that the organisation will not need new skills, because it probably will, because the future will be different. It is part of the board's role in evaluating the strategy or the organisation, to take a view about whether the organisation is set up for success. That is part of my role.