Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The most contested side is always current expenditure.

With regard to the overall funding the total funding for TFI Local Link rural services under the PSO was €20 million. My understanding is that we on track for the €56 million spend. It depends on the exact configuration as it is a five-year programme. It is a very good programme. Our entire transport system is bedevilled by annual accounting systems. We need to switch to multi-annual funding. In the writing of manifestoes for the next election one thing we all need to make sure is included is that we move away from annual budgeting to multi-annual budgeting particularly when it comes to transport. It does not work. We are forever caught having to make do from year to year.