Talks on road investment see National Development Plan go down to the wire

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The €165bn plan, to be published on Monday, will include more than 50 projects with a price tag of more than €100m

A number of TDs and Senators made their positions clear on roads and other infrastructural investments they feel are vital – and expect Mr McGrath to deliver on next week., who raised the issue at the party’s parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday, said the second phase of the northern distributor road between Clare and Limerick must be funded – even in the face of Green Party concerns about building infrastructure for fossil-fuel burning vehicles.

“Roads are the only show in town for this particular part of the country. I think it’s premature to say we’re going to stop building roads. If the mode of transport is clean, roads aren’t the problem. The Greens’ roads argument needs to be reconsidered in the light of infrastructure deficiencies in the rest of Ireland.”said it was vital that Fianna Fáil be seen to deliver projects.

Galway West TD Éamon Ó Cuív said he had argued that there were very few motorways west of the Shannon. “All public transport, freight, pleasure and tourism – with a few exceptions – depends on roads. We can decarbonise the fleet through hydrogen and electric [fuels].”

 

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Anything for Donegal…8 lane super highway perhaps?

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