Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that it is a long-term project. The situation at the moment is that responsibility for the project is being passed between different Departments. That is a problem. We are two years in now and nothing has been done. A recent parliamentary question I submitted to the Department of Transport passed the buck again over to the OPW. Now we are hearing the buck being passed back again. It is not acceptable because if it keeps going on we are going to get flooding on the line. Everybody will accept a solution that takes seven to ten years to finish out but they will not accept it if nothing is being done when it can be done. We are losing years and have lost two already. A solution has been identified. It is a critical piece of infrastructure. We cannot afford to lose confidence in the service between Limerick, Ennis and Galway. That is what will happen if we do not act on this as soon as possible.

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