Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I would like to put on record the good progress we are making in implementing the very ambitious upgrade programme provided for in the NDP and in transforming our national roads network for the benefit of everyone. Efforts to focus on cost increases that occurred in the period up to 2002 cannot detract from the irrefutable fact that route by route, the national road network is being transformed. Since 2000, nearly 50 projects with a combined length of 340 km, including more than 180 km to motorway-dual carriageway standard have been completed.

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