Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach will have heard the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", but it must be an awful long way for him, because he promised me months ago that he would meet the task force in Tipperary, the Jobs4Tipp and March4Tipp groups and representatives like Councillor Anne Marie Ryan. Could he organise a Zoom meeting to deal with the issue of a ring road for Tipperary town? The motorway is coming at some stage but there are road works in the town which will cause bedlam for two more years. I urge the Taoiseach to meet this group. They are enablers. They want to be positive. They are working with Alison Harvey's task force, but we need joined-up thinking here. We badly need a ring road. The Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has committed to meeting the group as well, as has the Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton. They need the Taoiseach to engage. They saw the commitment he gave. I accept that the Taoiseach has been busy, but will he please organise a Zoom call with those people and the other Deputies for Tipperary to try to push the project forward?

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