Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the professor's final point, from what I understand, the deficit is to the west in the north, rather than to the east. Is it not the case that the road infrastructure is particularly poor in respect of the links between the Belfast to Dublin corridor and Derry and Tyrone? Is he, therefore, saying that significant further investment in that infrastructure will be hugely important to those regions?