Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The National Transport Authority, I should have said. I believe he referred to TII as well.

If I can continue with my point, I am from Meelick, the community where this road will end. It will terminate in Knockalisheen, Meelick, the community I was born and bred in. Some people cannot wait for the road to be built. Some people have major reservations. That is pretty standard in whatever road project one can think of in this country. The one thing that is unfair is the procrastinated state of uncertainty that lies ahead for many people. The Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, said it can progress. The statutory bodies are progressing it. I want to know if it will progress. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan has said he has difficulties with it. Will he put a ministerial block on its progression? I get all the points he has made about light rail. I really love that. It is fantastic and I ask that he progresses with that. We all want to see it. If it is progressing through its statutory phases, albeit slowly and we all expect this to take a number of years, will the Minister put a block on those statutory phases, or will he allow them to progress?