Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Deputy. He is advocating strongly for his own area and I believe he would agree that while a lot of progress has been made in the past five or ten years on infrastructural investment and infrastructure full stop, as our population - thankfully - continues to grow and as our economy thankfully is still in full employment because of the hard work of our people and the economic and policy decisions made by this Government and the previous one, we must make sure we catch up where there are infrastructural deficits. In the coming weeks, the Department of Transport and all Departments effectively will be publishing their own NDP. That will be a sectoral analysis, detailing the projects that will be included as we do in the roads programme. We see roads progressing, and we are seeing roads being built. We are seeing rail lines progress, as I mentioned in my response to Deputy Daly, such as Foynes, the Cork commuter rail and the work being done in Galway. I note Deputy Connolly is present as well. We have a lot to do in that space. We will be publishing each departmental plan around the NDP. One euro in four of investment secured is going into public transport.

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