Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would never say Deputy Crowe wanted to contemplate the Seanad but you never know. I hope he will not have to. There are a lot of issues. It is a flavour of the appetite from local authority members, on behalf of their constituents, in an interest in road projects, greenways, road safety, pedestrians and bypasses. Everybody, every day moves around. Of course, we talk about active travel. Irish Rail and the NTA were at the committee and the NTA will be in again. Many parts of Ireland are incredibly car-dependent and that is not going to change any time soon. It is important the roads they have are quality, usable, safe, reliable and fit for purpose. I am around long enough to remember when lots of the roads in the Republic of Ireland were terrible and we all compared them with the North, which was much better. That is not the case any more in the quality of the surface. I give full credit for that. I will give TII these queries and it can deal with them. Will the witnesses touch on the issues and, generally, how it prioritises projects? There is a lot of fear. There are so many projects. If TII had six or ten times its budget, it would have enough projects to keep it going. Is it clear to people on this list how low or high they are on the list - like in a school, are you number three on the waiting list or number 300? Is that published?