Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's answer to a previous question on the N4 and the stretch of road from Castlebaldwin to Collooney. I recognise the fact that he is committed to the project and we are all looking forward to work on the road starting, hopefully at the end of this year. Given the number of fatalities on this stretch of road, on which 27 people have been killed over the past number of years, this very important.

This question relates to the western distributor route, which is crucial to the development of Sligo and its environs. The IDA needs the road to serve 70 acres of land it owns in order that it can progress factories on that parcel of land for companies to move in very soon and create jobs.

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