Mr. Tom Phillips:

Infrastructure was mentioned. We have been promoting a policy for this area for some time. Australia, which is 110 times bigger than Ireland in terms of land mass and a population five times our own, has a single infrastructure authority. We have myriad competing forces looking for different funding, be it the second runway at Dublin Airport or the national children's hospital. A book was released in Australia in February 2017. On page 7 it says that the most important piece of infrastructure Australia needs is the M4 between Sydney and Parramatta. That book does not exist in Ireland. We have too many agencies here, each of which makes legitimate claims on our infrastructure. We need one co-ordinating force to bring it together. I am not saying that we should create a quango, but rather the bringing together of all the various resources.