Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The basic point is that the benefit of the Connecting Ireland scheme's five-year approach is that it gives us certainty. There is a difficulty in how we match it to the annual budgetary process, which by its very nature is stop-start. We need to switch to multi-annual funding. This will not be easy. The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform will agree to it with a tight hold on what we do.