Mr. Gerard Brady:

Yes. If we look at it from a budgetary point of view, many things can be done in the planning and consenting system that would speed things up. We have given more detail on that point. I discussed this topic with the members of the infrastructure committee several months ago. On budgetary topics, multi-annual funding for the agencies delivering the funding and projects is required to ensure they are not running out of funding halfway through a year and waiting until the next budget to move forward.

A second point would be resourcing the key bodies making decisions, along with making them quicker at taking those decisions. These include the local authorities, the courts, An Coimisiún Pleanála and the likes of the Environmental Protection Agency. It is about ensuring those bodies are adequately resourced to make quick decisions.

The third point is underpinning infrastructure. To be fair, it is probably the number one issue. We are seeing progress in that space. Money has been committed in the new national development plan. It is about ensuring that money gets out and is not replacing old money. We must ensure we are not switching one source of funding for another, and that this is additional money that delivers water, wastewater and grid projects on the ground. Those are the key challenges, particularly the point concerning underpinning infrastructure. Everything else is built on top of it.