Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would agree with the Minister of State's comments. There are certainly stretches of road in this country that need improvement, including safety improvements and upgrades. There is probably a need for more town bypasses to be built as well. We do not need to build a big massive road. Building a bypass around those towns would make much more sensible use of money and create those nice town centres by taking a lot of that through traffic out of them. I have always held the view that cars should be able to get to a town but not necessarily through the town. That is something we should look at wherever possible.

I suggest we invite TII before the committee so we can take up those concerns on the emissions report and on the report on which we have seen the headlines.