Mr. Andrew Ebrill:

An absolute budget of €331 million is available for new projects and no more. Therefore, we allocated that budget in line with the prioritisation exercise, which included not stopping projects under construction, such as the Macroom bypass or the Dunkettle interchange. It involved prioritising other projects, such as bypass projects, for example, in line with ministerial priorities. We were able to proceed with and to progress about 30 NDP projects this year on that basis. Six projects could not be progressed this year, but as Ms Brogan said, they are not stopped and they will be examined later this year for next year’s part of the normal annual assessment process.