Ms Anne Graham:

I will start and Mr. Creegan might cover the active travel side of things. We do have a Dublin focus. Some rural local authorities, and certainly other representatives here, would say we have too much of a Dublin focus at times and we are not delivering in rural Ireland, so we definitely have to balance what we deliver in Dublin and what we deliver outside it. The reason we sometimes have a focus on Dublin is that we are statutorily required to produce a transport strategy for the greater Dublin area and an implementation plan for how we are going to implement it. Ultimately, it comes down to what funding is available from central government. I do not know whether there would be any change to how funding can be raised for transport projects were a directly elected mayor in place. It would probably still be the case that we would be taking from a single capital pot each year. The decision to be made is really what is spent in Dublin and what is spent outside it, but it will still be one pot, I imagine. The decision around the cancellation of metro north was down to a funding issue more than anything else and an inability of the Government of the time to fund the project, so that would have been the case-----