Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am from the north west. I live near the N5 and N4. Getting back to the national infrastructure project, I have seen where yellow and orange lights have been replaced with white lights. It is amazing that we have come full circle, as 30 years ago we had white lights. I would like to see the type of savings being made. I would not like to see this being dealt with just in the west and north west because we do not have motorways.

I want to ask a question on infrastructural projects because I must leave to go to another meeting. I am sure the witnesses are aware of the Carrick-on-Shannon bypass issue. The town is on the N4 and the issue is getting much worse. There was an accident there two weeks ago and traffic was blocked for two hours. This is not an average town. It is on the River Shannon and there are no small routes around it. We need to look at a Carrick-on-Shannon bypass. It is very serious. The witnesses know how serious it is. We have the Scramogue to Ballaghaderreen and the Collooney to Castlebaldwin programmes coming onstream, but the north west needs a motorway to keep up with the pace of getting to and from Dublin.