Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister must agree that 16 years after we put it into the development plan, we are not going too fast. It is 16 years since we did that. The people led us in proposing sustainable solutions to the traffic congestion in Galway. We have been let down by management. Councillors put it forward in my time and it has never been rolled out. At this stage, there is urgency to it. My privilege as Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not extend to the supplementary answers. I look forward to reading about the sites being identified as it is all very vague. This is a problem that we can deal with very quickly, namely to identify the sites. Of course they have to be integrated into a sustainable transport system. My preference is for light rail but that is just my preference, as it was among the 24,000 people who signed the petition to ask for a feasibility study. It is all tied in together. The city is destined to grow, as the Minister knows, by an additional 40% under the national development plan. We should be planning strategically and sustainably and the most basic thing are park-and-ride facilities.

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