Mr. Hugh Creegan:

It really boils down to the fact that we are dealing with a backlog of need. The whole city, effectively, needs to be restructured to deliver those safe cycling facilities. In the case of the scheme the Deputy mentioned, it got brought down as far as the Hole in the Wall roundabout and it was stopped there. There are plans to extend that further but Dublin City Council has plans agreed with us on dozens and dozens of other roads around the city. It is question of what we prioritise. If we take the example in the Dublin City Council area of Griffith Avenue, from one end to the other there are four schools along that road and transformative provision was put in there. We are constantly trying to make judgments as to which are the best routes to do. It is not that a connection to Donaghmede or over towards Clare Hall will not get done. It will get done but it is not possible to do them all at the same time and that is really what it boils down to. If we had a mayor in place, his or her judgment might be slightly different from ours but it does not change the reality that we are all working off the one pot of money and we can only do X kilometres. The judgment might be slightly different, depending on who is making it, but the overall impact will broadly be the same.