Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Just to tell how serious it is there - all jokes aside - coming from Cork or going from Killarney at night time, because the junction is not lit, a great number of local people actually pass their own crossroads. They come upon the latter and have gone by before they realise it. An amount of accidents have happened there. Senior executive engineers and excellent people working for Kerry County Council have reliably told me that, in their opinion, lights would change the whole junction and make it so much safer. It is not unrecorded accidents that happen there; they are of such severity that people report them and ambulances and gardaí attend. They are notified accidents so TII could actually get records from the Garda as to how many accidents have occurred at that particular junction. For visitors and locals alike, it would mean so much if there were four lights or something around that put up there just to brighten up the junction. Deputy Alan Kelly knows it himself.