Mr. Peter Walsh:

I will answer that. With the review of the capital plan, the Department announced on 16 January support for the revitalisation of a pipeline of projects. It is referred to as appraisal and prioritisation of various major projects. Carrick-on-Shannon is one of the projects. There are 17 we had identified as part of a group of projects. Where work had been done previously, we are seeing in our own transport model projections that there will be distress in future years. With the support of the Department and arising out of that review, we can now recommence an appraisal of those projects. We have written to the local authorities to emphasise that we should not get too excited about it in that not all of the projects will proceed. It is to prepare projects for a pipeline for the next capital plan, and the appraisal of those projects will be the first phase of that. In a sporting analogy sense, this is a kind of fitness test to see if they will make the general panel, never mind the team. We do not want to raise too many expectations but Carrick-on-Shannon is one of the projects on that list.