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

As I said, we do have to prioritise. The NDP stands. It is not that any projects are being dropped but there are certain projects we have to advance. The Government has set out an agreed approach whereby we will invest 10% of our capital budget in active travel, as is absolutely appropriate, and the first step we need to take is to retain the existing road network to ensure it will be safe, that its surface will be protected and so on. That will take a significant investment. The remaining budget is 2:1 in favour of public transport to roads. In the roads network, we need to prioritise a lot of bypasses because that has potential to develop town centres first and the transport-led development we mentioned earlier, which are the areas for prioritisation in our capital budget.