Mr. Peter Walsh:

We gather road safety statistics. We see that additional junctions on national roads, outside the speed limits, create hazards. We cannot resile from that in some sort of piecemeal manner. That does not mean that a planning application, on a national road with particular traffic volumes and in particular circumstances, would not be considered on its own merits. If a local authority is bringing in a development plan that will, as a consequence, create a breach of that development plan in the event of that being considered, that is a different matter. We are not a planning authority, however.