The Killarney bypass is one of the road projects that the Government and the Greens have halted in recent days. This bypass has been promised for over 25 years. This road is to go from Farranfore to Lissivigeen and from Lissivigeen to Castlelough and Muckross. All the access roads into Killarney and the town itself are choked on a daily basis. The financial well-being of the county is being jeopardised by this further and reckless delay. Hundreds of housing planning applicants cannot even apply for planning as large tracts of land are sterilised until the preferred route is identified and as four routes are being proposed, there is an awful area of land being sterilised for over 20 years.

The time is up.

While there are traffic jams and queues, there is more carbon being emitted when people are waiting in their cars for a half an hour to go here or there. What is the Government doing?

I will have to ask the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to come back to the Deputy with a further update. Roughly €500 million is allocated each year for national roads - half for maintenance and restoration and half for new projects. It is not the case that every project gets funded every year. We have not decided yet on the allocations for 2024. Certainly, where there are a number of route options, we are keen to spend the money to narrow the number of route options down to one precisely for the reason the Deputy articulates that where there are a number of different route options not decided on yet, people's land is sterilised and that is very unfair on them.

We were promised this in 2000.