Mr. Garret Doocey:

I will start off with a brief response on the funding and then the active travel programme, with detail from Mr. Walsh on roads, and from Mr. Creegan on the active travel projects themselves.

On the funding, the Deputy asked about certainty. As Mr. Walsh said, the Oilgate scheme is it within TII's programme of works and ultimately the NDP review will provide that clarity that we all need regarding what the next five, and ultimately ten, years are. We will get that certainty in the next couple of weeks or months, That is where the overall funding certainty will come from. The scheme is within the TII planned programme of works.

On the active travel, Mr. Creegan will have greater detail on the specifics of the scheme. I am aware of the scheme the Deputy referred to. He raised an interesting point about the scheme that has gone on, which is of a very high quality, as he said. It is important to think of active travel in terms of the development of the network as a whole. This is where we optimise and maximise the utilisation of the individual schemes that go in. We all know of individual schemes that have been in development or developed over the past ten years even, but if it is just an isolated scheme on its own it will not maximise the benefit for the local community. It needs to be that network effect. We are starting to see the network effect in certain locations across the country. Limerick is an example of one of the five cities where it can be seen most. They are starting to see a network develop and that is where we get the utilisation of it. The NTA-----