Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

First, I agree with the Deputy. I have a concern that the waiting for a Galway outer bypass may have seen the authorities not put push the delivery of the public transport and active travel solutions which, I believe, will be critical to turning around Galway's transport difficulties and providing a system that works. The site the Deputy mentions in the west is, to my mind, a particular example of that because I understand the local authority may own the lands which could be used as a potential site.

I believe we should advance the various public transport and park and ride measures such as these, regardless of what the local authority or other authorities are looking at in terms of an outer ring road around Galway. Listing the details of where those three projects are at, they are very much now within the stage of going to compulsory purchase order, going to site acquisition or, in the case of the western part of the city, the local authority making a decision as to whether it wants to use its publicly-owned land in that regard or await some other development.

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