Mr. Peter Walsh:

The Deputy's other question was about what has changed in terms of prioritisation. There are two specific changes, as I see it, in respect of the projects in the review. One relates to climate action. There is a requirement to achieve significant performance in terms of carbon reduction. The performance of projects in that regard will be influential in terms of their selection for delivery. That is my opinion. Obviously, they will go to the Department of Transport and also to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

In terms of the national road network, the other change for us relates to vulnerable road users. We have just concluded the last road safety strategy. Whereas fatalities on the network are down and the performance has been quite good overall, fatalities among vulnerable road users are up through the period of the previous strategy. This comes at a time when we are heading into a period when active travel is very much being encouraged. People around my age and probably younger are getting on electric bikes and going out on the network. We are going to have to address that in a very proactive way in our projects. It may not change the specific nominated projects but the manner in which we develop the designs will have to address vulnerable road users in a way that we had not really addressed them previously.