Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are so many of them, of course. I opened the three bypasses at Dingle, Castleisland and Tralee myself a few years ago. I would have to check with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what is the exact status of the project. There will be further allocations for road spending as part of the ten-year capital plan.

Under what we are planning already, there will be an additional €4.1 billion in capital spending over the next number of years. We will see capital spending - investment in infrastructure in Ireland - increasing by approximately 70% to 80% over the next number of years, bringing us from being one of the lowest spending countries in terms of infrastructure to one of the highest spending in the European Union by 2021. If I look back just over the past five years and what has been done, we have connected the Luas lines and joined them to the mainline rail network. That will open in December to passengers.

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