Mr. Gerard Brady:

I might add one or two things on the subject of the road infrastructure in the north west. In particular, 50 projects were either stalled or cancelled at the end of the last capital programme because we ran out of money. Half of them are in the north west. We also have a situation on the N4 and the N5, where the freight levels are actually higher than on some of our motorways at the moment. There is a Brexit implication to that as well. There are three access roads to the north west in general. Two of them run through the North. If we end up with a hard Border, there could be two customs posts on the A5 and the Enniskillen road. The N4 will then take all of the traffic going to the north west. There is already capacity on the Longford bypass with about 14,000 cars a day plus about 1,000 heavy goods vehicles. The capacity is about 10,000 vehicles. It is already unsafe in terms of capacity and it is only going to get worse.