Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will come back to Mr. Walsh in a moment. While it is for the committee to decide at a later stage, I believe we should look for an expert to come in here and look at multi-annual funding. When we are drafting the budget for 2025 we should look at all of the projects that TII currently has on hand and the cost of those projects and then add an addendum to allow TII to expand into new areas. That addendum should be multi-annual. It should be an annual thing. It is outrageous that TII is waiting for the stroke of a pen some time in October to know whether it can still live for another year. I commend Mr. Walsh and his people on continuing to keep the projects moving when TII is uncertain about the future. We need to bring in some experts and see how it is planned across Europe.