Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:10 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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No, it will be a bridge with little bits of tunnel. That project will be a minor alleviation. To make Galway, Limerick or Cork fully functioning cities over the next ten years there will be issues of housing, services for housing and transport infrastructure for roads and public transport. Has Dr. Hughes done any quantification of what kind of investment we would need to demand from the Government to make this happen?