Mr. Seamus Butler:

If Deputy Troy means the N4 between Mullingar and the Leitrim border, the next stage is design and CPO preparation. That will cost around €5 million. That is the initial stage over the next year or two. The aim would be to go into construction in 2021 and be completed in 2023. As Deputy Scanlon said, that is six years. We have to get it off the ground and onto the capital programme. Longford County Council met with TII in December 2016. They more or less said that they could not open a file or sharpen a pencil on the N4 section unless it gets onto the capital programme. That is what we are asking for here.