Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thoroughly agree that it is not black and white because I have seen it in operation and it is difficult. I am looking at the new infrastructure that might be put in and I return to Mr. Ryan on that. When we are looking at building roads and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, is awarding funding contracts, the delivery agent is the local county council. In respect of the delivery of brand new roads, I refer to the N63 in Galway, where €8.9 million has been spent on doing a particular section of about 2.5 km to 3 km in length and it is brilliant. The road has been widened and realigned and a walkway and cycle path have even been put in but we forgot to put lights on it. This is a suburban area of Galway city and when people come home in the evenings they cannot go out walking on it in the evening because it is dark for six months of the year and yet we are trying to promote people being active. The local people had lobbied the council and TII quite heavily to put in the infrastructure to facilitate the residents going out to walk in the evening. Is that not something that should be looked at nationally going forward? When we are putting new infrastructure in place that goes through local towns and villages should we not put in the infrastructure to get people active and moving as well? That was a particular example of where it could have been done on a brand new road. What does Mr. Ryan think about that?