Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a long list for every county in regard to the NDP. I would love to see the Minister hit the nail on the head with regard to the unsewered villages of rural Ireland. In Clare in particular, there are five or six of them. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, visited Broadford just a few weeks ago. It is important that we end that long-standing practice of raw sewage passing into local streams and drains.

The first phase of the Limerick northern distributor road has been approved and its construction is well under way, but it stops at the roundabout. We need to complete it in its entirety and that needs to be a priority.

Finally, in preparation for the new NDP, there has been much discussion of park-and-rail facilities along the Clare-Limerick-Galway railway track. I would love them to be developed in proximity to Cratloe and Thomond Park, near to Limerick city. Would it not be wonderful to get that railway line along the west of Ireland, giving proper connectivity to the west?

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