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

The Chairman mentioned a 2:1 ratio. We are not meeting that yet and we will have a real challenge to do so. The reality on the roads side is that we have many roads in planning and incredible capability in road-building. TII and the local authorities are superb at building roads. They have endless numbers of projects. It is very difficult. We cannot give false promises and say that every single road will be developed now. It is not ruling them out. It is not saying that at some point in the future they will come in as a development possibility, but there is a budget limitation. We have got so many different projects, all of which were being developed. We do not have enough engineers to do all the planning and design of all the roads that were being planned. I had to give direction to TII to say, "Hold on a second here; we have to prioritise", and the prioritisation is along the lines I mentioned earlier.