Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, somebody came to me from the other perspective. He is a mechanic and a car salesperson who was clear in saying to me that he has an agenda in that he wants to sell more cars. I know he had approached the local authority. I assume a greater number of those conversations need to happen, but they have to go beyond that and towards putting operational projects in place wherever we can. If we do not, especially if the funding is there, it will be a misstep and we will all miss out. Even when someone looks at buying a car, the first consideration is not being caught out in the sense of not having the infrastructure to deliver. This will probably be fine in two, three or four years, but that will only be the case if we do that groundwork now. We have to do a chase on that.

I will very quickly raise a few issues before I leave the meeting. There have been a significant number of conversations about cybersecurity. The Minister also spoke about the likes of the wind energy investments we will be talking about into the future. Some of this may necessarily fall under defence, but it is that difficulty of cyber to physical and ensuring that we have all the capacity necessary. The last thing I will ask the Minister relates to the An Post taskforce. Where are we on that piece of work? It is all about the sustainability and viability of the network.