Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

For wider compliance with the national planning framework, there is a need for that to align with the sectoral investment plans. As someone born in his county with parents from Mayo - and I know there is lots of Galway representation, including Senator Crowe on this committee - I am very familiar with all the different transport projects he referenced in the context of Galway. The Deputy is right. The infrastructure deficit is clear in the west, the north west and along the Atlantic corridor. We need to correct that. Part of the sectoral investment plan for transport infrastructure, for example, will absolutely be focused on that. For more housing and business development in our regions, there has to be an uplift in that infrastructure investment. That is a clear part of the national planning framework. The wider alignment of the sectoral investment plans will be to align with what we have set out in the planning framework, which, obviously, is to have balanced regional development and housing and infrastructure where there are greater deficits. That will be worked out at departmental level.