Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is relevant for many of my constituents. I would withdraw the word "entertaining" because of the disruption caused. Some of that disruption is a consequence of our doing things at crisis point, which is the case at present. If a route features every day on "AA Roadwatch", the likelihood of it featuring in a future capital programme is higher. That was the case with the Dunkettle roundabout and areas of traffic congestion that have been dominant up to now. I imagine provisions are built into the contract such that if the contractor loses a lane there are penalty clauses and so on. Given the amount of traffic on the route it is inevitable that there would be major disruption, and there is.