Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We are not going to truck everything through the towns such as Adare or elsewhere. It is best to put it on rail freight. Second, I will say to the Chairman the same thing I would say to the people in Tipperary. The plan for Tipperary is to expand from Cahir to Limerick Junction, and TII is looking at that. One of the potential solutions is to do the bypass first. I am not saying the upgrade of the full road from Cahir to Limerick Junction will not be done but rather that, in the same way we did the Cashel bypass, the design can be such that the bypass is put in first and, subsequently, subject to availability of funding, the road can be upgraded. The same approach, I would argue-----

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