Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Taoiseach - sorry, future Taoiseach. Minister, the programme for Government and the national planning framework provide for the vital upgrade of the N17. This project forms part of the TEN-T European network, is a core component of the Atlantic economic corridor, passed the strategic research and analysis division of the Department, progressed through planning and design, and a preferred route emerged. Are Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, in government, aware of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, and the Green Party's unilateral sabotage of all these already-announced national policies, suspending them indefinitely to totally undermine momentum and the potential of the western seaboard to perform to its potential and offer a level of counterbalance to the eastern conurbation? Will the Minister outline clearly if correspondence from the Minister, Deputy Ryan, effectively putting this project on the never-never, suspended indefinitely list, is now Government policy? If it is, the Government needs to come clean with the voters of the western seaboard in this regard.

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