Mr. Peter Walsh:

Quite often, local authorities will be reluctant to get into major works on a road that is about to be bypassed because a lot of existing traffic would be discommoded by the work. If there is a prospect of waiting a relatively short period before the traffic can be diverted, we will maintain a commitment to the old road to allow funding of those works that we could not get to in time because of the traffic. We have done this in Moate, Kilbeggan and various other towns that were bypassed. I would expect that, in the current circumstances, there would be cause for a review to be carried out, but it is the Road Safety Authority’s decision as to when it wants to make an intervention. Nevertheless, we would be supportive of an earlier intervention.