Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister should not invite me to. I thank him for his reply. I have in mind a number of projects in my constituency regarding traffic management and alleviation of snarl-ups in various towns, including Naas but in particular Maynooth, where there is a massive logjam. Millions of euro were allocated 20 years ago and not a penny of them has been spent yet for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the Minister might get involved in that as a means of identifying the particular reasons and how they could be shortlisted.

I could not let the occasion pass without mentioning the issue in my constituency at Castletown in Celbridge, where the local population and residents are unfairly demonised through a series of implications that they are responsible for the issue. In fact, the first infraction was by the Department itself and by the Office of Public Works, OPW, which sought to rearrange the front gates in accordance with what it saw as an emergency. I do not agree, it is very unfair, and I ask the Minister to take a personal interest to resolve the matter as soon as possible.

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