Mr. Kevin Kelly:

As many issues are within the competence of Galway City council, I will deal with a couple of broader issues.

The environment in which we develop proposals is complex. We spoke about the predecessor of the Galway city ring road, the Galway city outer bypass, and the difficulties it ran into. The project could have been built in 2011, but we are a long way from it now. On a smaller scale, we spoke about the project that got under way this week to provide a left-hand turning lane out of Parkmore. A previous version, granted permission by Galway County Council, was taken to An Bord Pleanála where it was refused. It is not the case that nothing is being done.