Budget 2024 will see a €200 million cut in funding for main road projects. This is a misguided decision by the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, who has an over-influence on the Cabinet. It is the third consecutive year there has been this level of cuts to major infrastructure. Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, said there were four deaths on the N24 and 11 serious injuries between Limerick Junction and Cahir. We have already had two losses of life this year. The Government must put this money back into these roads - the bypass for Tipperary town and the upgrade of the N24 between Limerick and Waterford - as it is vital for infrastructural connectivity to our ports and for Tipperary town. People cannot live there. The task force there is doing great work with Councillor Annemarie Ryan and others trying to get this bypass. The Minister for Transport promised it but he seems to have totally stopped any road projects and he is against any improvements.

The time is up.

Will the Government please listen to the TII when it says that lives will be lost and there will be more injuries because of a lack of investment in these roads?

That is one particular budget line. There is also funding through the Road Safety Authority and there is funding through local authorities as well. We will be doing a review of the national development plan allocations in the next couple of weeks. I would anticipate that will involve an uplift for road projects. I can guarantee the Deputy that it is not the case that road projects are not going ahead. In the next couple of weeks we will open the new bypass of Macroom and Ballyvourney.

Thank God.

We will open the new Athy distributor road, turn the sod on Tulsk to Scramoge-----

I am looking forward to that.

-----and open the Moycullen bypass. It is never going to be possible to fund every road project in any given year. That never was the case.