The Road Fund.

The Deputy can be absolutely assured that I will use whatever little influence I have to get as big a sum of money as possible for my Department in 1982.

For Dublin and Cork?

We will include other places as well. We might throw a few shillings up to Cavan-Monaghan.

I did not think we would need them up there for some time according to the vote this morning.

Arising out of the Minister's reply to the last point made by the former Minister for Finance, would he give this commitment to the already much overburdened motorist—that his payment of the road tax will be used for road construction, signs and lighting, that at least the Government would allocate that sum of money to the road programme?

I do not know what sums of money are involved. But, as I said to Deputy R. Ryan, I will certainly be using whatever influence I have to get as big an allocation as I can from my Department in 1982.