Mr. Cormac O'Rourke:

Certainly, I will.

On Deputy Barry's question about the Cork-Limerick motorway, it is much too early. No decision has been made on whether it will be funded by PPP or if it will be tolled. We are currently at the feasibility stage. It is a matter of policy and one that will go back to the Department for a decision, it will not be decided by us.

Deputy Catherine Murphy asked about congestion. As with everything related to roads, the answer is quite complicated. Traffic on motorways seems to grow much faster than the traffic elsewhere and seems to be driven primarily by GDP levels. The other national roads grow more slowly, and the national secondary roads do not grow either with GDP or GNP, they seem to track employment levels. We are trying to figure out in our modelling what is driving it, but there are different growth rates for the different roads. What is concerning about the M50, where there is much congestion, is that despite the congestion, it has continued to grow over the last 12 months at a level of 5% per annum.