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

As the Deputy has said, it doubled year on year. I expect that sort of expenditure growth to continue and for it to double again. These are not the only services we have to deliver; there are also town bus services and other BusConnects services. However, the number one priority is to make sure the Connecting Ireland programme is rolled out because it has transformative potential for areas where there are no services at the present time.