Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted for Macroom but I am more worried about Galway city. What the Tánaiste is saying is great, but where does the Minister for Transport stand in this? The body which will fund this project is the Department of Transport. Will we, therefore, get a clear Government message on this project? I will repeat what the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, said. He said this road cannot proceed and that we must take the climate action laws into account. Effectively, then, people are wondering what in the name of God is happening here and can we have clear leadership regarding what is going to happen so we do not have any more confusion.

Personally, I believe the An Bord Pleanála review is compromised if the Department of Transport and the Minister who is the head of it, and also the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, has said that this project cannot proceed and that we must work within the laws. This is very confusing. It is not right that a project of this nature, as the Tánaiste set out, is being put out there in a cloud of indecision and uncertainty. We do not know what is happening.

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