Some €75.5 million has been allocated to non-national roads for employment and economic activity. Under the EU co-financed specific improvement scheme, expenditure of over €47 million will be incurred this year on non-national roads schemes to facilitate housing development. This is an ambitious and progressive programme. Non-national roads expenditure is already 13% ahead of the national development plan profile. Our track record on non-national roads is second to none. For example, in the period 1996 to 2002 almost 30,000 kilometres of non-national roads were improved under the restoration programme and more roads will be restored in 2003. That represents real progress and we can stand on our record. The Government is determined that we will have a non-national roads system of which we can be proud and which will support the social and economic needs of a peripheral country. That is why we have increased motor tax rates.