Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)

It may be, but it is also a matter of whether the Tánaiste is willing to give time. What has happened on the back of the Government decision not to do this is that the Northern Executive is deciding, and the First Minister is indicating, that they will allocate the Stg£400 million to other projects. It is critical that the Government tries to undo the damage that has been done to this project in the past 20 hours and get it back on track. What it is doing by its actions is knocking this project into never-never land. We need a debate this afternoon specifically to address this issue. We then need the Taoiseach and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to meet the Northern Executive to see if something can be salvaged out of this. If not, the north west will never see this road built.

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