Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think the Minster of State would agree that transport could not get any worse in Galway with traffic congestion.

I welcome that there is going to be a plan, but I will tell the Minister of State about my experience. The transport plan that became law in 2016 was already dated and outmoded in light of the increase in the population, the promised increase in the population and our obligations under climate change legislation. With a small team on the streets of Galway - we did not take one signature online - I gathered 24,000 signatures in 2018 from people crying out for a feasibility study. That was eventually done by the previous Government. I welcomed that. It was finally published and it indicated that this was eminently doable. While it will not be reached tonight, I have a question further down the question paper on park-and-ride facilities. The sustainable solutions in Galway have never been rolled out. A park-and-ride facility still remains up in the clouds even though it was enshrined in the city development plan on 1 February 20 years ago. Will the Minister of State give me some dates in respect of the promised metropolitan area plan?

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