Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State knows my views on the N6 project. There are sustainable solutions to the traffic congestion in Galway. We are under an obligation. The Minister of State may have listened to the radio interview this morning regarding the billions we are going to pay in fines for failure to comply with our obligations. Galway is one of five cities that is destined to grow. We have no park-and-ride facilities even though it was put into the city development plan and became law on 1 February 2005. I have to keep repeating this because the people of Galway, through the councillors, put forward suggestions but they were never implemented. You have to ask yourself why this park-and-ride proposal was never implemented over those 20 years. I know exactly how long the light rail feasibility study took. I thank the Minister of State for mentioning it and looking on it as a possibility. It has taken a very long time. The Minister of State is behind the western rail corridor and I fully support him on that. These are all sustainable solutions that will allow us to comply with our climate obligations.

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