Dáil debates

Thursday, 8 July 2021

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

 

12:40 pm

Photo of Mattie McGrathMattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to thank the Minister in the first instance for his engagement with people from Tipperary County Council, Jobs4Tipp, March4Tipp and Tipperary Town Chamber of Commerce. Will he ensure, as part of the review of the national development plan, that the first priority is a bypass for Tipperary town? I know he is clear on that and he is leaning towards bypasses. If it is part of the N24 project, all the better, but the bypass of the town must be done. It is being choked, especially since Brexit, with the huge increase in heavy freight traffic from the west to the east. I plead with the Minister again, at this vital time, to give priority to this. The community groups in Tipperary are made up of wonderful people, who were forced onto the streets as part of the March4Tipp campaign two years ago. They will go onto the streets again if they have to but they would rather work with the Minister. Ní neart go cur le chéile. That is the way they want to work. They are good, dedicated and ingenious people but they cannot survive any longer unless the heavy trucks are taken out of their town. They are suffering from the smog and, above all, the congestion.

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