Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

According to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, the problem he is facing is that a large number of interest groups, including local authorities, county managers, Deputies and Senators, want him to continue spending a great deal of money in planning projects that we cannot afford to build for ten or 20 years. He could spend that money, but it would be at the expense of road maintenance, removing dangerous bends and so on, which would be a mistake. Sadly, the price was obviously too-----

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