Mr. Garret Doocey:

No, not necessarily would be my honest assessment of where we stand. We will see with the NDP review what position we arrive at. The Deputy mentioned a number of projects there for the future. Much of that will be determined by what comes out in the NDP review and the position in which we find ourselves. I mentioned our starting position of €22.8 billion to Deputy Neville earlier, based on NDP 2021. That sought to achieve an awful lot on delivery on the public transport investment programme alone. Notwithstanding that there are new projects, some of which the Deputy just mentioned, which people are also seeking to advance. There is a huge challenge ahead of us over the next few years at a macro level in the transport programme.

Briefly, before I hand over to NTA colleagues on some of the specifics, the Deputy mentioned decarbonisation of the rail, the interface, DART+ programme, etc. In the all-island strategic rail review, we did look at the overall decarbonisation of the intercity and inter-regional network. That is a medium- to longer-term programme and it will be a programme of works taking many years between now and 2040, and beyond really. There are interfaces to be considered between that work and more immediate works such as the DART+ programme and ultimately Cork too.

I will hand over to my NTA colleagues.