The N81 is one of the deadliest roads in the State. It has seven times the national average of head-on collisions and twice the national average for single vehicle collisions. After a ten-year site selection process to see the upgrade of the N81 over a 31 km stretch between Tallaght and Hollywood Cross, the scheme has been shelved. It is not included in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 and it is not in the national roads programme. I have asked the absentee Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about it numerous times. He has not even acknowledged correspondence or petitions containing thousands of signatures from people in west Wicklow.

The Deputy is well over time. I remind him that his colleagues behind him are waiting.

I ask that this project, which is essential not just in terms of road safety but also for the economic development of west Wicklow, be given priority and that the Minister correspond directly with his Cabinet colleague, the Minister, Deputy Ross, to get answers for the people in west Wicklow.

The Deputy should not take advantage of the Chair.

I am not in a position to reply. I will have to organise a reply for the Deputy.