Mr. Ian Talbot:

So many things need to be done across the country. It is a very difficult question for Chambers Ireland to specifically point to projects around the country as many things have national applicability. The grid is one, and there is also Dublin Airport, our national airport, but Cork and Shannon also need to see investment. We have underinvested consistently in infrastructure. Again, we have a chance to get it right this time. We have a chance in the NDP to look at the cities and towns referenced in it and build the right transport infrastructure. There was an earlier point about lining things up together, so childcare, transport and schools are developed together, for example. That is very important. It comes back to the national development plan, Project Ireland 2040 and so on. We need to really take it seriously and get the public to buy into that vision as well. It is very important that the public understand that we have to build cities properly for the future, and not just do it piecemeal, with a bit of this and a bit of that.

The east coast water supply is also a critical project. It tends to be billed as a Dublin project, but it is actually the whole east coast and big chunks of the midlands as well. It is a very important project.