Mr. Ray O'Leary:

The Wild Atlantic Way is a mixture of national and regional roads. Mr. Michael Nolan has spoken of TII's work on the tourist routes in terms of small schemes to improve them. Clearly, the impact on the economic development, including tourism, is one of the factors we consider when we engage with local authorities. Regional and local road improvement funding is still of the order of €10 million, which is significantly constrained for the non-national routes. That is a consideration we will bear in mind.

To pick up on the cases that were well made around the local improvement schemes and the community improvement schemes, there is a commitment in the programme for Government that as funding is re-established and we move towards being able to maintain the infrastructure we have, we will look again at the scope for a specific local improvement scheme and community improvement scheme and the mid-term capital review will inform that also.