Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My last question is on a local issue. It is about customer signage. I have been toing and froing over this for two years with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, my local authority, Kilkenny County Council, and even the tourist board. It is about signage for a hotel, whose name I will not mention. When the bypass of Waterford was developed, there was customer signage erected, with the bed symbol, for Waterford. There is a hotel just on the left, on the way to New Ross. The proprietor has come to me on numerous occasions and asked whether customer signage could be put up showing his hotel. I have gone back and forth. Kilkenny County Council is agreeing to it. I went so far as to write to the tourist board, and it agreed, yet I cannot get Transport Infrastructure Ireland to agree to put up the sign. There is even a sign produced by Kilkenny County Council. Not erecting it is excluding a man who is running a hotel and catering business. His case should be heard. He is willing to pay for the sign himself. I am sorry for bringing up a personal matter but am taking the opportunity because I do not meet Mr. Nolan that often.