Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Cork County Council tells us that the road will open some time next year. There are many reports and investigations going on. This road was built by people with shovels, crowbars and sledgehammers. We have all kinds of machinery now, but this local road is preventing people from Kerry from going to Cork or Ballingeary and vice versa. It is totally unfair. If this were happening here in Dublin, it would have been fixed long ago. If a road were closed here, it would be reopened in two weeks.

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