Ms Émer Deane:

On Lough Neagh, the shared island initiative is funding research by the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water, which is doing work specifically on the Lough Neagh issue. It is worth also mentioning the bioeconomy demonstrators that were announced last month and are going live. One of the demonstrators is based in County Tyrone. It will look specifically at the challenge of nutrients in the soil and how to create a circular economy in the dairy and beef sectors to reduce the nutrients in the soil.

Lough Neagh was discussed at a meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council almost a year ago. Following that, there has been ongoing engagement between the Minister for housing who has responsibility for water-based management and his counterpart in Northern Ireland. Good work is being done there, given that one of the tributaries into Lough Neagh comes from County Monaghan. Very good ongoing work is being done between the two Departments so Lough Neagh is very much on our radar.

I wish to confirm, as the Taoiseach has done, that the Government's commitment to the A5 remains. We await the outcome of the judicial process, which I understand is likely to be before the end of this year.