Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister visited Tipperary town some years ago with Deputy Cahill and others regarding the bypass for Tipperary town. The people in Tipperary town and the surrounding areas are going grey waiting for this much-needed relief road to get the lorries and trucks out of the town. All the organisations - the chamber, March4Tipp and Jobs for Tipp - as well as Councillor Annemarie Ryan and all the other councillors and everybody else want this bypass. There is a plan for the N24, as the Minister will know, but that is not happening because the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has his foot on it. I want the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to take his foot off it and get the Minister, Deputy McGrath, and others to allocate the funding to provide, on the footprint of that new road, the bypass of Tipperary town in order to allow the people there to live, work, play and breathe clean air and to let the truckers avoid their frustrations and delays. It is a major route from Rosslare right up to Foynes and Galway and it must be done. It is up to the Minister to deliver. There is no point in coming for photo opportunities and photo shoots and not delivering this project. It has to be delivered or everyone will go grey.

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