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

We spoke about how TII was formed through the merger of the NRA and the RPA and how the NTA came from the Dublin Transportation Office. While the legislative provisions on what the NTA can do in Dublin differ from those setting out what it can do in other cities like Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick, I understand that the Bill will provide it the same flexibility in BusConnects projects in those cities as it has in Dublin. The NTA has a different remit outside the greater Dublin area. For example, it has a remit over the development and deployment of the greater Dublin area transport strategy, but it does not have quite the same legislative powers in respect of the authorities in Limerick and elsewhere. My understanding from the officials is that the flexibility we are creating in this Bill to deliver bus corridors will apply in those cities in the same way as it does in Dublin.