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

It makes an absolute mockery of Sinn Féin's claim to be at all serious on climate or planning. The northern distributor road is absolutely the wrong project for Limerick. The right project for Limerick is laid out in the Limerick-Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy. It is incredible investment in rail and bus infrastructure in Limerick and Clare, and I welcome the Minister's comments. I welcome the ambition to deliver a rail link to Shannon airport, reopening the Foynes railway line. We need to be talking about a new railway station at Raheen, particularly. It is not talked about enough. There are 7,000 or 8,000 people working there every day. Those should be priorities. Moyross and Ballysimon have to be priorities. This is what Limerick should be doing and absolutely not the northern distributor road.

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