Taoiseach - sorry, future Taoiseach. Minister, the programme for Government and the national planning framework provide for the vital upgrade of the N17. This project forms part of the TEN-T European network, is a core component of the Atlantic economic corridor, passed the strategic research and analysis division of the Department, progressed through planning and design, and a preferred route emerged. Are Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, in government, aware of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, and the Green Party's unilateral sabotage of all these already-announced national policies, suspending them indefinitely to totally undermine momentum and the potential of the western seaboard to perform to its potential and offer a level of counterbalance to the eastern conurbation? Will the Minister outline clearly if correspondence from the Minister, Deputy Ryan, effectively putting this project on the never-never, suspended indefinitely list, is now Government policy? If it is, the Government needs to come clean with the voters of the western seaboard in this regard.

I thank Deputy MacSharry for his passionate contribution. I know he is a passionate advocate for the west. We have worked together to try to deliver real projects for Sligo and the north west, particularly regarding education. I will have to seek clarity for the Deputy about the N17. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to revert directly to Deputy MacSharry.

Will the Minister, Deputy Harris, revert to me?

I will revert directly to Deputy MacSharry. I would be delighted to.