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

That is due to Covid support. We had an enormous budget and as that declines, the budget decreases but not in the underlying sense. In the national development plan, a political decision was taken that for the first four or five years of the plan, housing will scoop the full pot. That is an appropriate political decision. However, in the second half of this decade - and my colleagues from the Department of the Environment, Communications and Climate may wish to close their ears before I say this - spending on transport will ramp up. That is appropriate because it will take time to get some of those projects, particularly the public transport projects, ready to go.