John McGahon (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When Ms Deane mentions that bigger scale and the shared island fund, how does her unit make a differentiation between projects? I ask because on looking at that project, I would say it is going to have to be continually scaled up over the next couple of years. For example, if there are eight services today and another seven are added, technically we are doubling it. But compare that to Liverpool to Manchester or Edinburgh to Glasgow, that is, similar cities, populations and distances with up to 30 or 40 services a day. Will it ever get to the point where the shared island unit would look at a project, decide it had invested enough money in it and that it needed to spread its money around other projects? How does the unit makes a differentiation whereby it thinks enough money has gone towards a project and it cannot commit any more?