Shane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)

I wish the Minister well with his allocations under the Vote of the Department of Transport. It will be money well spent, regardless of whether it has to be borrowed, if it leads to safer road and rail facilities. I wish the Minister well — the M3 will be finished shortly, please God, which might bring many of the campaigns against it to an end. I do not doubt that I will meet the Minister at tomorrow's meeting with the road safety officer for in County Meath, Mr. Michael Finnegan. Perhaps every county should have a road safety officer, and the Minister might look at that. When I contacted Mr. Tom Dowling about appointing such an officer in County Meath, he had the ball rolling within three weeks. The Minister and I know that Mr. Finnegan is probably the best road safety officer in the country. It all leads to the one thing at the end of the day.

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