Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Today, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, announced the preferred routes for rail and road for the M20. It is very welcome. I have two questions. TII is proposing bypasses of Banogue, Charleville, Buttevant and Mallow, and it is then proposing that it will be a choice between tier 1, the highest level of dual carriageway, or motorway on the route itself. TII advised me today there is no difference in the cost between a tier 1 dual carriageway and a motorway. I would like it to be a motorway as we will just get one opportunity. Is that something the Taoiseach would support? TII is going to design an environmental stage, and it is talking about two years to get through An Bord Pleanála. That needs to be brought forward as quickly as possible. We need that connection between our two great cities of Limerick and Cork.

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