Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail)

We are talking about the projects on this side. I will get to the Ennis bypass. The Senator need have no worry about that. I get annoyed because I know how grateful we would be in the entire midwest region to suffer the inconvenience people on the eastern side of the country are experiencing. We would be grateful because we know that inherent in that inconvenience would be the recognition that one would reach a point where the difficulties and problems being experienced would ultimately be resolved. That is not the case for us at the minute, unfortunately. We see the necessity to have a programme along the lines set out in the NDP and the national spatial strategy to include many of the projects that would help to bring balanced regional development, as espoused in those two documents, to put in place the vital infrastructure needed. Senator McDowell is right, it would include the Ennis bypass, but not totally. We will not be totally parochial about this. It would also include the road link from Limerick to Galway, the western rail line, a fourth river crossing in Limerick and it would seek to put in place a co-ordinated infrastructure in that region that would include a rail link from Shannon Airport.