Mr. Garret Doocey:

The Deputy raised a really good point about the cost of not doing things. The cost of us not delivering infrastructure is being missed in much of the discussion about the cost of delivering infrastructure. That is one aspect that we will be bringing into the work that is being led by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, accelerating infrastructure task force which has been established is, as Mr. Walsh alluded to in his opening statement, looking at where the barriers to the timely delivery of infrastructure are. The Deputy referred to 1852. We all recognise that it was a completely different regulatory environment with different planning processes, but even if one considers the original DART in 1984 and the time for its roll-out - it took a few years and we should not kid ourselves - there has been a significant change and increase in the length of time now.