Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is €27 million out of €30 million in cuts to the Minister's Department as I understand it. On the A5, I have to ask why the Department had ring-fenced €27 million towards this project at a time when the Department would have been well aware that this money would not have been necessary for 2019. I am putting the Minister on notice that we will be keeping a close eye to ensure his commitment that there will be no cuts and no prioritisation of schemes, as the Government likes to describe it, going forward.

On the roll-out of additional services here and now, of the 150 busses that were due to be delivered before July 2019 to Dublin Bus, I ask again how many of those busses will be replacement busses. How many have been delivered to date?

On additional rail carriages, when will the tender be issued and when can we expect delivery of the much needed additional rail carriages? In the interim, while we are waiting on rail carriages, will the Minister look at putting in bus services to supplement the chronic overcrowding that currently exists on our rail network?

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