Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Does this infrastructure committee examine matters such as these traffic problems and the fact that such accidents stop traffic in Dublin? Is there a solution whereby the city need not close down every time there is an accident, such as when a truck jack-knifes?

On the construction issue, we are aware there is a significant drop in residential construction activity. What is the Government's strategy to shift constructive activity from residential to infrastructural activity? It seems that increasing numbers of building workers, including skilled workers, are becoming unemployed. I am coming across tradespeople who cannot get work. Since there is available capacity in construction, certainly on the labour side, is there a strategy to shift that to get the infrastructure built?

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