The national development plan sets out a strategy which is intended to increase competitiveness, improve access to markets and improve inter-urban transport. However, our roads strategy has done none of this and is no longer designed to do so. Rather, we have improved suburban routes around Dublin. Virtually all the big expenditure has been focused on the Dublin region through, for example, the Dublin to Kildare route, the Dublin to the Border route through Meath and the improvement of the N11 through the Glen of the Downs, to which Senator Mansergh referred. All of this is intended to improve access to Dublin for commuters more so than for business. I accept this is necessary, but public transport would be a better means of achieving it. It means we have lost sight of the other principle aim of the roads project which was to improve access for business and individual passengers to the regions.