Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I raise with the Minister the issue of the N22 Cork-Kerry road. I congratulate the Cork team on its heroics last Saturday in ensuring Kerry's safe passage to the all-Ireland quarter-final. We Kerrymen want to become closer to Cork, and we have a fantastic piece of infrastructure in the Macroom bypass. The next section will open between Baile Bhuirne and Macroom very shortly, but the section from Macroom to Ovens and the far side of Macroom, as we would see it, is not clearly a priority at the moment. It needs to be on the agenda. In terms of connectivity in the south-west region, it is a really important project and should now be progressed. As we know, the State has the finances to do it. This is the opportunity to finally give the people of the south-west region the connectivity they need in order that everyone can benefit from the massive engine of the southern economy that is Cork city but also the broad hinterland.

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