Mr. Michael Nolan:

Absolutely. We maintain a database of the rates of fatalities, serious injuries and minor injuries on all of our road network.

We share the database with the Road Safety Authority, RSA. It influences our decision with regard to prioritising some projects. We see accident clusters on some projects, which are a multiple of what one would expect for a road of that type or cross section nationally. We identify where the fatality rate is above the national rate. We share a great deal of data with the RSA in respect of the safety of each of the unapproved links on the network.