Mr. Gareth Llewellyn:

I am very clear that TII has a statutory duty to deliver a safe and efficient road network. It must deliver on that. Over and above that, it has to deliver the Government's objectives, which are set out in the NDP. The organisation works within a framework. It does not determine behind closed doors what happens; it takes its lead from the Department of Transport and the NTA. That is the framework within which it works.

I have not come with a mindset that this organisation needs to be 15 times bigger in ten years' time. MetroLink is going to be one of the biggest challenges that Ireland, more generally, will face, and TII, specifically, will face. We need to get that right. The organisation does need to skill itself up quickly to be able to deliver MetroLink within a sensible time period and to ensure that when it goes through the implementation, there are not hold-ups and the costs do not escalate. The best way of doing that is to get people in TII's business and experts who know what they are doing on the ground now - not in two years' time. That will give us confidence that when the preferred route goes out, all the contracts are linked together.