Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If either a Dublin section of the NTA or a directly elected mayor in conjunction with a Dublin section of the NTA had a ring-fenced public transport budget for Dublin, with a huge degree of flexibility in terms of how it can be spent without having to resort to the Minister, would that lead to greater delivery? Does sending it to the Minister and waiting for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to run it through the codes of practice and so on delay a project or is that not a factor at all?