Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

The crucial role of the committee is to assist in resolving major infrastructural problems. What role has the sub-committee played, leading up to the decision by the Government to pay €600 million to National Toll Roads to buy out the M50 toll bridge? Is the sub-committee fully aware of the daily torture endured by tens of thousands of working people as they try to cross the Liffey at the M50 toll bridge on a daily basis? I see the Taoiseach is commemorating today the flight of the earls. It is just as well they did not have to go through the M50 or they would never have got away. They would still be languishing there, just like many of our people.

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