The main purpose of the Bill is to ensure local government is adequately funded, both for non-national roads expenditure and other purposes. A large programme of work stretches ahead of us with regard to regional and other county roads, the roads between important towns such as the road between Tipperary and Thurles. One could give dozens, if not hundreds, of other examples. The standard of these roads has deteriorated which means that they are slow to travel on and, in many places, dangerous. We are concentrating most of the resources on putting a motorway and upgraded dual carriageway network in place but there is a big programme facing us for regional roads. If we increase funding for local authorities, they might be able to make a decent start on the programme without waiting until all the national road improvements are finished. That would be important.