Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe the people of Macroom are ungrateful. They are frustrated and they are sick of waiting for the bypass. They have been waiting for many years and have seen the drip-feeding of funding for land purchase, funding which has decreased and increased over the years. We want to get to the stage where the project happens and we are able to drive on that road.

There are ways in which the Minister can speed up the process. I have shown him one such way. The tender for construction can be run at the same time as other works are being carried out. These works do not need to hold the tendering back. There are ways in which the Minister can carry out the process much more quickly. We are offering him solutions. We are asking whether the Minister will take them, run with them and make the road happen more quickly than he has projected in his figures. It is possible.

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