Mr. Tomás Campbell:

Our long-term hope would be to define a new urban area. Anything within a geographic region defined as an urban area would have a default applied to it, but that would take time, so in the short term, special speed limits are a way to implement it. It is also consistent with what the Minister, Deputy Chambers, said in the Oireachtas, which is that the local government role in speed limits would be respected. If we brought in a default limit with a poorly defined urban area, we may end up with roads that appropriately have a different speed limit being at the lower limit. The guidelines are statutory, so it is not that there is no statute behind this. The local authorities have to take cognisance of the guidelines when they are published.