Mr. Peter Walsh:

It is included in the projects to be allocated funding in this year and it is part of the N24 Cahir to Limerick junction project. We have agreed with the local authority that the Tipperary bypass element would be, if at all possible, advanced in isolation. However, it needs to work the bypass into the overall scheme. I am not close enough to the project to know exactly which stage it is at but it is down for funding. We are not in a position to indicate what the funding is at the moment because local authorities have to be told first, and we think that will be done next week. We are currently putting the booklets together.