Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We hope it will open in the autumn or early winter of this year. It will not release money for anything, of course. We hope that following the mid-term capital review, the spend will start in 2020. The initial spend is going to be smaller because the amounts will be smaller. We have to allocate most of that to steady-state spending because of the state of some of the roads. They have deteriorated so much that they need investment to get them back up to a steady-state level. Our ambitious programme for the mid-term capital review for the years from 2020 onwards includes some of the projects in Deputy O'Keeffe's local area in which he is undoubtedly interested.