The difficulty with the national development plan has not been with funding, or even the question of whether it should be a mix of public and private. The difficulty has been with delivery. The Minister will be familiar with the FGS report which specifically focused on the roads projects. It makes interesting reading because it points up a variety of defects in the way we go about managing major infrastructural, particularly roads. Throughout the system, we have been slow in design, planning, route selection and particularly in cost management. The only way in which the likely cost of the motorway projects were guesstimated – with the benefit of hindsight it seems to have been a guesstimate – was by taking an average, per kilometre cost of roadway and simply multiplying it by the likely length of any given stretch of motorway. To put it another way, no realistic effort was made to estimate the likely cost of projects and it is hardly surprising there was a cost over-run. It is not sufficient to say, as the Taoiseach has said and the Minister has implied, that it all comes down to construction price inflation – it does not. There is a real deficit in terms of our ability to manage the cost of major infrastructure projects. I am not convinced that setting up the NDFA will improve matters.