Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I was involved a number of years ago with a proposed route that largely did that called the Leinster orbital route. It went from Drogheda through Navan down as far as Naas. I actually think the answer is no. At that time we were doing something called predict and provide. We were predicting car use and providing for it. The more modern way of doing it now is to predict and manage. I am definitely more in the zone of saying we need to manage the infrastructure we have. We need to put more people onto public transport and we need to somewhat reduce car use. We recognise lots of car use is still required and it is not about trying to wipe it out or anything. Personally, I do not think building a large motorway project like that is required. We do have a good motorway network at the moment, built largely in the noughties. I do not see the need to go and invest a few billion euro into that particular proposal.