Mr. Pat Doherty:

It would be good if the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Donohoe, made a presentation to us. If members remember the last presentation, Mr. Danny McSorley who is the chief executive of Omagh and Strabane district councils said that all of the technical and environmental issues will be addressed. From all my dealings with the road service that is the case. The key point is the money. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, has to give us some sense of what the Government will do in terms of revisiting the finances in 2015. That is the key.

Some of the Unionist parties in the Northern Executive are not terribly committed to it. It is only because of the strength of the SDLP and Sinn Féin on the Executive that the money has been ringfenced. We should be mindful of that. Mr. Danny Kennedy, MLA, is the Northern Minister concerned but he cannot speak against it because it is an Executive decision and not his decision. One must remember that his former party Leader was very much against the A5 road. One must watch that all the time. The collective position is that the money is ringfenced. If the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, could give some sense of when the Government money would come forward, then one could have a sense of when it would happen. All of the engineers say they will be ready to go through the public inquiry and consultation process at the start of 2016.