Mr. Peter Walsh:

There is a good example of that working in the taxpayer's favour, in my opinion, at the New Ross bypass. The PPP company had technical difficulties with the bridge and with completing the project. The taxpayer did not have to pay anything for that until such time as the project was complete, then availability payments started to flow. There are good protections for the taxpayer in these. We are not promoting any particular model, nor would we. We will undertake the provision of infrastructure using whatever means the Department and Government require of us. I would not like to promote any one aspect. The benefit that should be borne in mind is that the difference between having completed the major inter-urban network and being short of 300 km of major inter-urban network is vast. The functionality of the connections is far greater.