Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht

Rural Development and Infrastructure: Belturbet, Connemara and Kells Municipal Districts

2:15 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If there is no time for answering, that is fine. I am sure the witnesses will answer in some context for somebody's question, or somebody else will ask the question for me again.

Would it be helpful if the Minister and two Ministers of State, one of whom is from Mayo and who has rural development responsibilities and the other of whom represents Galway West and has responsibility for the Gaeltacht, were called in to try to explain to us how, in conscience, they can allow this logjam to continue without bringing it to the attention of the Government and without cracking heads together in all the agencies to get an answer? As the witnesses know, we need this road if we are to develop this rural area. The same problem is mirrored throughout the country.

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