We have an appalling public transport system, heavily congested roads and a major lack of affordable housing. Last week the Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, acknowledged that the national roads building programme, targeted for completion in 2006, would at the earliest be met in 2007 – three years after schedule – with enormous additional costs in terms of additional expenditure and costs in terms of the logjam and strangulation that will occur in the main arteries of cities and towns. There are soaring costs, delays and non-delivery. The cumulative result of this incompetence and mismanagement is that more jobs will be lost and unemployment, which plagued us for so long and which we all thought and prayed was a thing of the past, will continue to grow monthly.