Mr. Pat Maher:

I suppose the challenges of pavements on bog roads on the non-national road network are pretty much ubiquitous in Ireland. I have acknowledged that we have those kind of challenges as well, particularly on our national secondary network. The difficulty is that, historically, a great deal of our attention has been on keeping those roads together so if we want to diminish the longer term maintenance I would say it requires heavier capital investment. There are technological solutions but anybody involved would acknowledge that construction across boggy ground is both expensive and technically challenging. There are no easy solutions.