Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I do not doubt the ability of this country to improvise if there is a slow-burner crisis, to put shoulders to the wheel and to deal with the issue. I have grave reservations, however, about an immediate or sudden crisis. To give one example, on 13 February on the M50 there was a crash involving a couple of trucks. Fortunately no one was fatally injured but the whole motorway closed for a few hours. I do not know whether the Minister's emergency task force will look at something like that. If not, will he say why it took so long for a helicopter to get into the air to try to start diverting traffic?

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