What concerns me in this review is the fact that the instinctive reaction appears to be that since we did not do things very badly in the past, we must therefore stop doing things in the future. Therein lies disaster. I would challenge anybody, whether they are Greens or anything else, to say that we currently have a decent road infrastructure. We could argue forever about motorways here or there, but it is universally accepted that the quality of our road infrastructure is abysmal. When The Irish Times did a little survey on the activities of the National Roads Authority for the last couple of years, it found the most it had done was reduce one journey time by 20 minutes. I suddenly had an insight into how remote from reality that body is because it reacted very angrily and said that the Watergrasshill bypass, quite near to where I live, had eliminated a notorious black spot. I have travelled through Watergrasshill, perhaps 1,000 times, in the past 30 years – driving from Cork to either Kildare or Dublin. I have been held up in Kildare, Monasterevin, Cashel, Fermoy and Mitchelstown. I was never held up in Watergrasshill, yet the body responsible for developing our road infrastructure told the nation it was a notorious black spot. It happens to be 150 miles from Dublin, so perhaps the NRA does not know much about it, but it does not say much for the sort of information on which it is basing its decisions nor does it give me much confidence in its capacity to make decisions.