Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair for his questions. I do not want to get into the northern distributor road debate. I take the point, as there is a similar debate in Galway in respect of ensuring that there are traffic flows that are manageable in and out of the city, and that does impact on the appetite for investment in cities. We need public transport networks which are efficient and work but we also need basic road infrastructure that does not result in bottlenecks in parts of cities. I do not want to give a detailed response on the Limerick northern distributor road because I would need to have a look at that in more detail.

Limerick has had a fairly good year in respect of foreign direct investment.