Mr. T.J. Malone:

I will give an idea of where we are overall. The Deputy is correct that survey is the first part, and people will see the guys on the road. We take it from there, we bring it back in-house and we do a more detailed design based on what we find out on the roads. On a national basis, we have approximately 85% of the entire country surveyed and 81% is completely designed at this stage. By the end of 2024, we will have 100% of the country surveyed and designed and that then goes into production and into the build phase. As Mr. Hendrick said in his opening statement, we have approximately 63% of the country either constructed or going through construction, and by the end of next year, we will have 84% of it either constructed or going through construction, so we are making huge progress in that way.

As I have always said, building this network is a little like building a skyscraper as there is so much work that goes on with the survey and design on the ground before we actually see it coming up. We are now starting to eat into this and starting to see the numbers being delivered. As Mr. Mulligan said in his opening statement, we are well ahead with this year's targets and, in fact, we are approximately 20,000 ahead.

As the Deputy rightly said in regard to his own area, the further out tends to be the later. That is just the way the design of this network has to work. We lost 12 months coming out of Covid so the seven-year plan looked like an eight-year plan at that stage, although we got eight and a half months of relief from the Department. As we are eating into this at the moment, it looks like we are going to pull the whole of it back in within the original seven-year envelope.