Mr. Jim Meade:

Yes for any infrastructure development. For example, our funding comes from two streams. For the service delivery and for service operation, it is through the public service obligation and the NTA. When we are putting the timetable together for announcement, we go back to the NTA and say, for example, that it will be a later Cork area service, or a morning Cork service from Limerick and so on. We tell them the cost and they either say "Yes" or "No". That is for the PSO. For infrastructure, however, and the calls for funding for infrastructure, that comes from the multi-annual contract, MAC, into my director of infrastructure who looks after the day-to-day maintenance of the railway, or through capital into all the capital investment. This comes from the Department. Sometimes the Department will channel that through the NTA and asks them to manage it or supervise it for us.