Mr. Pat Maher:

It is something like that. It is certainly something to which we are giving more consideration nowadays. We would not necessarily see the use, especially in rural areas, of the lower-noise SMA as being automatically a panacea. I refer to us deciding to use this everywhere. I say this because we must, of course, have regard to the degree to which we are able to afford future renewals, maintenance and reinstatement of the surface. There are, however, differences. In sensitive locations - I am not quite sure where in particular the Deputy has in mind concerning the N11 - this issue is certainly given consideration. We have not gone and would be reluctant to go to the point of saying we are going to forget about the rougher surfaces and we will stick to the lower-noise surface. We find that the lower-noise surfaces are more generally available.