Mr. Hugh Creegan:

Until the company gets many more additional drivers, which are hard to get in the market, we will never fully solve that.

On active travel projects, our funding levels this year are broadly the same as last year. Funding was slightly higher last year because we benefited form some transfers from other areas that were underspent. In the case of Meath, there is a really good team there delivering these projects. It has a portfolio of projects good to go but it has a challenge.

It is the same with a number of local authorities - we just cannot fund them all, so we will have to stagger their delivery. Broadly, the funding it got last year is more or less the same this year. It is just that it has been ambitious and has a portfolio, which is to be complimented. On the national development plan, we have provided a submission seeking to fund all the key things that you can imagine. Our transport strategy is the thing that defines the greater Dublin area. That ask included the Navan rail line, which is progressing on the design stage.