Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

If Deputy Deasy wants to look on the screen, he will see a figure from the chapter that may illustrate the point of drawing together from the various sources the funding. He can see what happened nationally to funding provided to local authorities for transport. The Deputy can see the funding for national roads. As the Accounting Officer has said, there is a payment from the local government fund to the Department. The Department then pays out voted funds. Some of those funds go through the National Roads Authority and so on, and then on to local authorities. The figure for national roads transfers has gone down from €1.5 billion to probably about €250 million. The amount for regional and local roads has not gone down by quite as much, but it is still down.