§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give an estimate of the respective cost of the proposed new single carriageway Loughbrickland-Newry road, and of the alternative of completing the dualisation of the existing road.
§ Mr. Carter, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 18 January 1979; 357W Vol. 960, c. 860], gave the following information:
The estimated cost of the proposed road works is £.4.7 million. These works will be mostly single carriageway but on the Tinker Hill section it is proposed that a second carriageway will be constructed to provide a short length of dual carriageway.
The estimated cost of dualising the existing road would be £8.2 million.