Mr. Garret Doocey:

I will come in on that. Ms Graham outlined the structures and infrastructure guidelines. For projects that cost more than €200 million, the major projects that are detailed in the infrastructure guidelines, the Department and its Accounting Officer obviously retain ultimate responsibility. For those larger projects, including BusConnects, DART projects, Cork commuter rail, etc., there is a governance and oversight structure within the Department. We meet monthly with representatives of the NTA. As relevant, representatives of sponsoring agencies also come in. NewERA sits alongside us on that governance and oversight group, so we benefit from its advice in that context. We analyse at a departmental level those business cases for major projects. They are ultimately brought to Government in line with the infrastructure guidelines at stages AG1 and AG3. The AG2 stage is a detailed project brief and procurement strategy and ministerial approval. There is NewERA input at the departmental level of oversight.