Mr. Hugh Creegan:

It starts with the national development plan, NDP. The latest NDP was published in 2021 and runs up to 2030. Effectively, that gave an overall envelope of investment funding and within that envelope, a certain amount is carved out for transport. The transport total, if my memory is correct, is €35 billion and public transport is a subset of that. Effectively, we have to work out the costs. We work off our transport strategy, which contains all of the schemes we want to do. For a scheme that is intended for development in the short term, it is a question of getting it developed up through planning, getting a cost estimate that is solid and then seeing, to put it bluntly, if it fits within the envelope of funding available, given all of the other projects that are there. There are two tests that it all boils down to. The first is whether the project fits within the funding that is available and the second is what level of priority the project has. Is it the most important project across the region or is something else going to trump it?