Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a road in Limerick that is finally being built again. It is the Coonagh to Knockalisheen road. It is a local authority-led project. It goes between counties Clare and Limerick but Limerick is the lead local authority on the project. Construction began on that road about three years ago and faltered. The contractor left the project. It is going back into construction in the summer. The problem with that road is that it goes from one roundabout to another. It ends in my home village of Meelick. It is a dual carriageway that will end at a roundabout and then you go not onto a primary or secondary road but a rural, tertiary road. The problem is it ends in the middle of nowhere. I said the last time I brought this up in the committee that it is like the Road Runner cartoon where you go to the end of town, it just stops and you drop off the edge. It will be like that. We have had battles on the routing and where it should and should not go. It has been contentious. You cannot have a road going to no place. There is congestion there every morning. If you listen to "Morning Ireland", you will hear about traffic on the Athlunkard road, in Meelick and in Caherdavin. This is the road to relieve that. What is the Minister doing to ensure it does not become the road to nowhere and there is a part 2 to the project that might see the light of day during his tenure in the Department?