Mr. Ian Talbot:

I will start. The most important thing is we just deliver what we know we need to deliver. We have been talking about metro north, as it started - it has become MetroLink - since 2005, and probably longer than that. We know we did not spend any money on housing. We probably stopped spending money on housing around 2006, in fact. It slowed down dramatically and it took us a couple of years to realise it. Then we spent ten years doing nothing. Even as we were trying to gear things up in 2016, there still was not a lot happening.

We know what needs to be done. It now needs to be delivered. That is a core point. The more things we add to the pile that need to be done the more likely we are to fail across the board. We need to take things, deliver them and move on to the next thing. For example, would it not be great if we could get MetroLink delivered and then the construction experts, the specialists, moved down to Cork to build the Cork Luas or whatever? We could get some sequential stuff like that going where we use the resources we have wisely and would not find ourselves in a situation where one thing gets done, we are already going to the next thing and we find there is a judicial review and it is all thrown out the window. Then the new environmental review comes in and the project has to be redesigned. That is the sort of thing that has been happening. The longer you do not deliver stuff, the more likely it is that some of those things trip you up with a curb.

We know there are things we need to deliver and it is back to things like reinforcing the grid, where we have the PR6, the price review process, which is a kind of investment plan rather than a price review. That is under way at the moment. We need to get under way with that. I mentioned the eastern water supply issue. There are all these big things that need to be done. We need to get on with them and stop gawking around the outskirts of them and saying it would be nice-----