Mr. Nigel O'Neill:

I can talk a bit about national development plan objectives. A key stakeholder for TII is the local authorities. They have a range of functions. They are an economic development authority in their locality and regions and they are a housing and planning authority. Local government is pretty much everything. A key matter for local authorities is their county and city development plans. That is the map for what happens spatially throughout the country. That is underpinned by infrastructure. Our job is to provide a portion of the national infrastructure that underpins the physical planning, which is done by local authorities. I know they are overseen by a planning regulator and so on and guidance comes through from other Departments but that is a fundamental part of what we do.

On projects over which TII has oversight, between now and 2040, the number of people in employment will go up from 2 million to 2.7 million - that is from 2016 to 2040.