Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let us be serious. The issue with the new roads programme, which Deputy Dooley when he is Minister will inflict on communities, is the absence of essential road works that are part and part and parcel of reducing our carbon footprint. The east-west and north-south improvements that will arise from the Slane bypass are important for the people who live there. If Deputy Dooley does not build that, it will damn those people forever to the danger and delays they are now experiencing.

The Ardee bypass costing more than €30 million is also in doubt as a result of Deputy Dooley's promise.

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