Were I to go down that road I would be attacked by all and sundry for not providing sufficient money to bring our roads up to a proper standard. Deputy Garland will have heard Deputy O'Keeffe speak earlier about the standard he would like to see apply to road construction in provincial areas. Then there are the demands in this city for better road networks and better circulation of traffic. One can do only what is feasible within the allocations obtaining. We are spending a lot of money endeavouring to get the road network around Dublin right; we are endeavouring to get our major national arteries correct so that we can gain from the advantage of competitiveness in the open market that will be upon us in a couple of years. Therefore, we have to commit large sums to that purpose. I accept that 92 per cent of the road network is comprised of roads, other than national primaries, and encompasses enormous mileage. Although there are fewer than one million taxpayers in this country, everybody calls for us to have roads equivalent to those in other European countries and elsewhere, where there is an enormous surplus of tax revenue. One immediately realises that such objectives are not possible overnight here, but we have an objective we would like to reach and are doing the best we can. I would have to say that the Government have been reasonably generous with me, in tight economic circumstances, in giving a great deal more money to the improvement of our roads network — granted to accommodate the Structural Funds requirement as well, but, at the same time, the additionality has been there and must be recognised.