Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----but that just helps narrow the route and with route design. We have about €250 million a year for new national roads. That is not enough to allow every project to progress every year but it is enough to make significant progress on many of them. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, is especially keen to prioritise bypasses of towns. Many got funding in this round, including Virginia, Carrick-on-Shannon, and a couple of others too. Perhaps Tipperary can be considered as part of that in future.

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