The motorist is seeing the benefits of significant and efficient spending on non-national roads. The national development plan provides for the investment of €2.43 billion in the non-national road network between 2000 and 2006, significant by any standards, and it is important that this money is well spent. As I indicated in the debate on the Bill in the Dáil, last year's independent evaluation of investment in the road network, carried out by Fitzpatrick Associates, economic consultants, concluded that the non-national roads programme was being operated on a reasonable and efficient basis. The non-national roads measure is one of the best performing in both the south-eastern and BMW regional operational programmes.