Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have spent €11 million in Rosslare Europort on a state-of-the-art facility to house our regulatory agencies. It is a facility that caters for approximately 20% of the throughput of traffic in Rosslare Europort. We have spent €11 million of the taxpayers' money but it is not being used with efficiency. Trucks are parked outside residents' homes and blocking them in, which means carers are unable to attend to their clients. The drivers are urinating and defecating on the grass because nobody has thought to cater for them as they wait for ships to come in. I have been asking questions of the agencies for the past six months. I held a meeting and brought all the stakeholders together to no avail. Six months later, nobody has instructed the Office of Public Works, OPW, to install tarmac to allow these trucks to park safely, despite €11 million of taxpayers' money having been spent. I call on the Minister to do that.

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