Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

We do know the priorities for the five interurban motorways which will link Dublin to Galway, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Belfast via the Border. No costings have been done on anything, however. In his reply, will the Minister of State outline what will happen to the BMW region? If only 26,000 jobs have been created in the past eight years of unprecedented growth, it leaves much to be desired. The Government has done a lot for the country but it has abandoned the BMW region.