Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have been chairing school boards for many years, and I know that there is a learning curve before you get more familiar with all of these things. I hope Mr. Llewellyn will get to look at our network sooner rather than later, while remaining compliant with Covid restrictions.

TII's predecessor, the National Roads Authority, which merged with the Railway Procurement Agency to become TII, completed the inter-urban motorway project from Dublin to the cities of Waterford, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Belfast very effectively up until 2010. Road safety has improved greatly. Those roads are far safer than the roads we are talking about, that is, the N20 and other roads on which people are making unsafe passes because they get stuck behind a heavy goods vehicle, tractor or milk tanker and get frustrated. They have nowhere to pass so they take risks they do not have to take on motorways. Mr. Llewellyn's background in road safety is very important. His background in sustainability and leadership is a very interesting part of his CV. Even though he does not overly labour the point, that experience will be very useful in the future.

Mr. Llewellyn has said that the more planning you do in advance and the earlier you do it, the less likely you are to have problems in the end. Are there any other points he would like to make with regard to working closely to minimise delays? MetroLink has been an aspiration for a long time. Is there anything else TII can do in that regard? Mr. Llewellyn referenced the legislation required to make the dynamic traffic management measures obligatory rather than advisory. We took that on board when we visited the operations centre. We had a very useful meeting there. Does he have any other asks of us, as legislators? Is there anything we can do to speed up the job he is trying to do in delivering for the people of Ireland?