Michael Kitt (Fianna Fail)

I join in the thanks to Minister of State, Deputy Pat Gallagher, for being with us here for two days and staying with the debate. I thank him and his officials too for the answers to the questions we raised.

The non-national roads are important, particularly to the people who use them. We gave a list today of county, regional and tertiary roads and of the local improvement schemes which are under way. I was glad to hear the Minister for State say that he would look at requests from local authorities for all these roads in the multi-annual programme and I hope we will be able to deliver on that. He seems to have the funds and we will have more through the local government fund which he will be able to deliver for the people of each county. I feel confident that if the local authorities put forward those proposals they will get a good response from the Minister of State. I thank him again for his attendance.

Question put and agreed to.