Mr. Nicholas Whyatt:

That is the certainty we are looking for at this stage. I agree with Mr. Mullaney regarding the process. The Department and TII are bound by the same process of the public spending code and the capital appraisal framework. Regarding accelerating the scheme, if there is to be a bypass, there is no advantage to be gained by going to the TII to accelerate it. We must be careful about jumping to that as the conclusion. There is a process to be gone through. Listening to the debate, it is important to note that this is not the beginning and end of all the project appraisal that will be done during the scheme. It is an iterative process that will get progressively more detailed as we go through it.