Mr. Michael Nolan:

The N16 was also mentioned as a cross-Border project. The N16 has been on the books for some time. We had schemes to completely realign the N16 between Glencar and Glenfarne. As the Deputy says, it is 40 km in length. Given the impact of the financial crisis and the downturn in our funding levels, we have reverted to carrying out a series of small low-cost but high-value and high-impact schemes. We are on our second scheme for the N16. There is territory on it with very severe S-bends. We could take off a half a kilometre by putting in a new route of 1 km.

There are a series of S-bends. It really is an abysmal piece of network. We hope to keep progressing with the planning and design of a series of schemes on the N16. We will have two opened by year end, or early in 2017.

We acknowledge that the schemes on the A4, Belcoo to Enniskillen, are really poor. That is for Transport Northern Ireland. Let it worry about that one.

On the comment about no money spent on the national secondary routes, it is worth mentioning that we have been doing a lot work with our minor scheme programme. We have built up 43 of these schemes since 2013. They are small schemes, typically of the order of 2 km to 5 km. They are low cost. They are easier than the major projects to get through the planning process. We can usually get them through the compulsory purchase order, CPO, stage without any objections. An Bord Pleanála would revert the scheme back to the local authority to make decisions to approve those schemes.

Substantially, most of those schemes would have been on national secondary routes. Also, in 2010 to 2012, we started a programme of focusing our attention on some of the tourist national secondary roads. At this point, we have piloted national low-volume secondary tourist routes under development. There is one between Oughterard and Clifden, and in Westport, up as far as Mulranny, we have full approval for 40 km of national secondary route. We are buying the land for all of that. We are at the second stage of construction. We are constructing those schemes in short stages. In Donegal-----