Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
9:00 am
Mr. Peter Walsh:
In my opinion, it possibly will but the progression of the relief road - that was a nominated scheme in the building and recovery capital plan - is independent. It is being progressed by Cork County Council with funding from ourselves. It will progress in any event. As the development of a design to address the deficiencies of the connection between Limerick and Cork is clarified, it may well be that it will be incorporated. Certainly, they will not be mutually exclusive. They will have to work together. The project was nominated in the building and recovery plan and it will progress as such.
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