Johnny Brady (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

From the word go, with his colleagues we have fully supported it and never wavered or buckled at the knees. We kept at it and will continue to keep at it until it is built. On the N52 from Ardee through Kells and into Westmeath there have been massive improvements. As part of the M3, we are getting the N52 bypass of Kells which is a major boost. There are other places such as Collierstown, outside Kells on the Mullingar Road, which also need to be bypassed, including Clonmellon and Delvin. I compliment the Minister on the work done on the Navan bypass and the N51 into Athboy. There is a serious problem with the road between Athboy and Delvin which needs enormous improvements, particularly at Lynch's cross, Lisclogher. Neither I nor the Minister wants to see an accident take place at that cross roads. I ask the Minister to go down any of its byroads, whether the road to Ballivor or Kildalkey or the N51 from Kells to Clonmellon and try to come out at that junction. It was a death trap not only during the elections. It is in Westmeath. I appeal to the Minister to provide funding for that particular junction.

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