Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Equally, the N20 is highly dangerous, and many of the businesses we have in Limerick are also based in Cork. I believe that if we want to be grown up about balanced regional development, outside of anything to do with climate change or anything else, we must link the two largest cities outside of Dublin, namely Cork and Limerick, where there is a counter-pole from all down along the western seaboard to Dublin. The point is that by doing so the bypasses, which are required, are also getting done but they are not mutually exclusive. The original M20 project incorporated the bypass of Adare. However, that particular project did not proceed. The M20 is now back on track. In the interim, the N69 bypass of Adare is going through, and that brings the added benefit of linking Foynes Port to Limerick city. I see them as very much an integrated model. I ask the Minister to go back to the M20.