Frank Feighan (Fine Gael)

I meant no offence to the Acting Chairman. We have welcomed major projects over the years. One must always welcome €1.5 billion being spent on national roads in the BMW region. I refer to projects such as the M1, the Dundalk western bypass, the N4 and the N5. There are many major road projects under consideration. However, there is one area in which I have some difficulty. There are dual carriageways and, indeed, motorways on the roads to Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast but on the road to the BMW region, the dual carriageway ends in Mullingar. It is getting much more difficult to get investment into the north west because if there is no dual carriageway to the north west, people will stop in Mullingar. I can drive from Lucan to Mullingar within the speed limit in 35 minutes but it then takes me approximately one hour and ten minutes to get to Boyle in County Roscommon.