Mr. John Conlon:

It is an important point that a body like Transport Infrastructure Ireland would have that capacity and expertise on big transport projects, and it is important that it is well resourced from that perspective. Similarly, in terms of sectoral capacity being built up, which we spoke about earlier, it is also important to have upskilling and resourcing for those big projects it is delivering.

It is important to note that some of those evolutionary decisions, such as external assurance processes and, in particular, the major projects advisory group, MPAG, augment the national investment office and its role. MPAG works closely with the national investment office on some of those big projects in terms of their inputs.