Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

To answer Deputy Naughten's question, one only has to look at the roads system. If one looks at the list of projects for this year outside the Dublin area, it includes the Dundalk-Border road, the Monaghan bypass, the Castleblayney bypass, the Edgeworthstown bypass, which was opened last week, the Kinnegad-Athlone road, the Ballyshannon-Bundoran road, the Mullingar bypass, the Mullingar-Belvedere road, the Cavan bypass and the Letterkenny bypass, all of which are in the BMW region. That list does not take account of some of the bigger projects. The next stage of the road Dublin-Athlone road is proceeding, as is the enormous stretch from Athlone to Ballinasloe on the Galway main road.

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