The Minister of State has seen fit to monitor the amount spent on realignment of roads and such like, but would he agree regarding the maintaince of roads that, especially during the last storm, anyone travelling from here to the Tyrone border on the Derry road would agree that of four local authorities concerned some spent a considerable amount of money in making the roads secure and safe and others seemed to neglect them?

That is a slightly different approach. Local authorities are given block grants to do that and are given additional grants for the strengthening of roads. We give the grants and it is a matter for local authorities to carry out the work. When local authorities get money the problem is that they complain that they are not getting enough. I am surprised that somebody tells me they are not spending their money to do jobs.

I ask the Minister of State to ensure that they spend their money on safety on the roads. Some of them were not spending as much as they should on that.