asked the Minister for the Environment if he will sanction the necessary funds to complete the road construction programme known as Blackrock By-Pass Stage 2, Frascati Road, Temple Hill, Blackrock, County Dublin, and if he will state when work will commence on this scheme.

Proposals for the Blackrock By-Pass, Stage 2, have not been received in my Department and I am not, accordingly, in a position to say when work will commence on the scheme. The question of providing the necessary finance for the by-pass will be considered in the normal course when acceptable proposals have been received from Dún Laoghaire Corporation.